PEOPLE v. JENKINS

Docket No. 11482.

250 Cal.App.2d 460 (1967)

58 Cal. Rptr. 401

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHN EDWARD JENKINS, Defendant and Appellant.

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

April 26, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudolph Pacht, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Rose-Marie Gruenwald, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


WOOD, P.J.

In an information the defendant was charged in count 1 with murder of Leon Williams, and in count 2 with assault with a deadly weapon on William Johnson. In a jury trial he was convicted of manslaughter on count 1, and of assault with a deadly weapon on count 2. The judgment was reversed on the ground that the jury had not been instructed properly regarding justifiable homicide. (People v. Jenkins, 232 Cal.App.2d 323<...

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