PEOPLE v. GOODMAN

Docket No. 774.

8 Cal.App.3d 705 (1970)

87 Cal. Rptr. 665

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JERRAL CLINTON GOODMAN, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

June 11, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Melvin W. Nitz, Public Defender, and Kenneth C. Farnsworth, Deputy Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, Craig B. Stalker, Arnold O. Overaye, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

STONE, P.J.

This appeal is from a conviction of murder of the second degree. On the morning of the day they were to marry, appellant shot his common law wife with a .12-gauge pump shotgun. There were no eyewitnesses to the shooting, which appellant contends was accidental. He said he did not know the gun was loaded, that just as he pulled the trigger the victim told him it was loaded but it was too late. At another time he...

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