People v. Graham

Opinion

WHELAN, Acting P. J.

Rodney Richard Graham, defendant, has appealed from a judgment imposing a prison sentence after a jury had found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter and the trial judge had found he was armed with a firearm at the time of his commission of the offense within the meaning of Penal Code section 12022.

The contentions on appeal are concerned solely with the latter finding by the trial judge.

Defendant was charged by an indictment filed March 14, 1973, with the murder of Charles Jackson on March 3, 1973. The indictment alleged further defendant used a firearm in the…