People v. Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor was charged by information with the murder of Booker T. Hawkins and in a jury trial she was convicted of manslaughter. Probation was denied and Mrs. Taylor was sentenced to the California Institution for Women. She appeals from the judgment and the denial of her motion for new trial.

There was evidence of the following facts. Appellant lived in a six-room house on East 52d Street in Los Angeles and rented rooms to Hawkins and one Henry Davis. At 12:45 a.m., on Saturday, August 29, 1959, a neighbor, Mrs. Franklin, answered a knock on her front door; appellant was at the door,…