People v. Noah

Opinion

WRIGHT, C. J.

On retrial, after this court had reversed judgments of conviction for violation of Penal Code section 4500 (malicious aggravated assault by a life prisoner), 1 a jury found defendants William Noah and Marines Meyers III guilty of violating Penal Code section 4501 (aggravated assault by- a prisoner serving a sentence of less than life). Defendants appeal from the judgments entered on the verdicts.

Defendant Meyers contends that, as a prisoner serving a life term at the time of the offense, he cannot be properly convicted of violating section 4501 and that the trial court’s…