People v. Hall

The defendant was charged with the murder of one Clyde E. Badgley, and a jury found him guilty of manslaughter. Following the denial of motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment he was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison; and from the judgment of conviction and the order denying the motion for new trial, he has appealed.

The admitted facts are that appellant shot Badgley with an automatic pistol while they were alone in appellant’s living apartment on Grove Street, in San Francisco, the bullet having entered Badgley’s abdomen and causing death a few days later. At the time of…