PEOPLE v. PHILLIPS

Docket No. 19871.

122 Cal.App.3d 69 (1981)

175 Cal. Rptr. 703

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. PRISCILLA E. PHILLIPS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

July 28, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Jonathan Matthew Purver, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Ephraim Margolin and William S. Mount for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, William D. Stein and Linda Ludlow, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GRODIN, J.

Following a lengthy jury trial, appellant was convicted of murdering one of her two adopted children (Pen. Code, § 187), and of willfully endangering the life or health of the other (Pen. Code, § 273a, subd. (1)), by deliberately administering a sodium compound into the food of each of them. As grounds for reversal she asserts juror misconduct, the erroneous admission of certain psychiatric testimony into...

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