People v. Slater

60 Cal.App.2d 358 (1943)

THE PEOPLE, Respondent,

v.

MARY SLATER, Appellant.

Crim. No. 2259.

California Court of Appeals. First Dist., Div. One.

Aug. 30, 1943.

Sol A. Abrams for Appellant.

Robert W. Kenny, Attorney General, and David K. Lener and Elizabeth Palmer, Deputies Attorney General, for Respondent.

KNIGHT, J.

The appellant, Mary Slater, was accused by information of having murdered Lucien Doyen, and she was found guilty by a jury of murder of the second degree. Motions for arrest of judgment and a new trial were denied; likewise a motion that the judgment be modified by reducing the degree of…