PEOPLE v. ANDERSON

Docket No. Crim. 20271.

20 Cal.3d 647 (1978)

574 P.2d 1235

143 Cal. Rptr. 883

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES ANDERSON et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

February 24, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Philip S. Kaufman and David Ashley Smyth, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendants and Appellants.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow and William V. Ballough, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

RICHARDSON, J.

Defendants James Anderson and Dennis Davis have appealed from convictions of voluntary manslaughter (Pen. Code, § 192), with findings that each defendant was armed with a deadly weapon (id., § 12022). Among other contentions, defendants assert that the trial court committed reversible error in permitting the prosecution to introduce evidence that, on two prior occasions, they had been arrested...

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