PEOPLE v. STANSBURY

Docket No. 471.

263 Cal.App.2d 499 (1968)

69 Cal. Rptr. 827

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. JUANITA JOY STANSBURY, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

June 25, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Edsel W. Haws and John Fourt, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Silveira, Garrett, Goul & Curry and Ben Curry for Defendant and Respondent.


CONLEY, P.J.

After closing hours, in their Mariposa bar called the Capitol Club, Juanita Joy Stansbury killed her husband, Phillip Stansbury; she shot him twice with a .22 caliber pistol and when he was stretched out on the floor, incapacitated and quite possibly already dead, she shot him seven times more. When the deputy sheriff came to arrest her, she said, "Scotty, I have done something bad.... I shot him." And when the officer expressed the belief that her husband...

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