People v. Browning

Opinion

CHRISTIAN, J.

—Stephen Douglas Browning has appealed from a judgment of imprisonment which was rendered after a jury found him guilty of second degree murder. (Pen. Code, § 187.) The cause has not been briefed. Appellant has moved for summary reversal of the judgment. The motion appeared to have merit. Because a judgment in a criminal case “can be reversed only after argument, . . .” (Pen. Code, § 1253), we have heard argument on the motion.

Browning and three codéfendants, Tucker, Weathersby and Wyatt, were charged by indictment with murder. The cause was tried before a jury, and was…