PEOPLE v. AGUILAR

Docket No. S054812.

16 Cal.4th 1023 (1997)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RAYMOND AGUILAR et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

November 17, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Meredith J. Watts and Patricia L. Watkins, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendants and Appellants.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan and Rene A. Chacon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

WERDEGAR. J.

Penal Code section 245, subdivision (a)(1)1 punishes "an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument other than a firearm or by any means of force likely to produce great bodily injury." (Italics added.) We granted review to determine whether hands or feet can constitute "deadly weapons" within the meaning of the statute. That hands and feet...

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