PEOPLE v. RAY

Docket No. Crim. 18380.

14 Cal.3d 20 (1975)

533 P.2d 1017

120 Cal. Rptr. 377

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. HOMER LAWRENCE RAY, JR., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 17, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

James Jay Seltzer, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, Derald E. Granberg and Jean M. Bordon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

WRIGHT, C.J.

Homer Lawrence Ray, Jr., appeals from a judgment upon a jury conviction of voluntary manslaughter (Pen. Code, § 192), a lesser included offense within that of murder (Pen. Code, § 187) as charged in the information.1 Defendant contends that the trial court erred (1) in failing to instruct the jury, sua sponte, that involuntarily...

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