PEOPLE v. CLARK

Docket No. 11049.

130 Cal.App.3d 371 (1982)

181 Cal. Rptr. 682

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WILLIAM JAMES CLARK, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

March 31, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, and Stephen Berlin, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, James T. McNally and Lisa Lewis Dubois, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

REYNOSO, J.*

Defendant William James Clark was granted probation after a jury found him to be guilty of involuntary manslaughter. (Pen. Code, § 192, subd. (2).) He appeals contending: (1) He acted in self-defense as a matter of law. (2) The trial court erred in instructing the jury on involuntary manslaughter. (3) The prosecution introduced improper and prejudicial evidence of the peaceable...

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