People v. Montecino

The appellant, Anita Montecino, charged with having murdered one Encarnación Mata, waived her right to a jury trial and was found guilty by the court of the crime of manslaughter, a lesser offense included in the original charge against her. Her applications for a new trial and for probation were denied and she was sentenced to imprisonment in the California Institution for Women at Tehachapi. She appeals from the judgment and from the order by which she was denied a new trial, asserting that the verdict [judgment] by which she was found guilty of manslaughter was contrary to and not…