PEOPLE v. BENTON

Docket No. 34334.

100 Cal.App.3d 92 (1979)

161 Cal. Rptr. 12

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BERNARD BENTON, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Five.

December 19, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, and William Wesley Patton, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Daniel J. Kremer, Assistant Attorney General, A. Wells Petersen and Harley D. Mayfield, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

ASHBY, J.

By jury trial appellant was convicted of discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling house. (Pen. Code, § 246.) Outside the presence of the jury appellant had admitted five prior convictions. Appellant was sentenced to state prison.

The victim, Wilma Harris, had known appellant for about 15 years. She had been a friend, sounding board or confidante. He sometimes became angry at her, including on two...

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