People v. Rigney

TRAYNOR, J.-

— Defendant appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict convicting him of two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder.

Defendant, a hospital corpsman in the United States Navy, was married to Janet Rigney, one of the prosecuting witnesses. Janet secured an interlocutory decree of divorce in July 1958. The decree awarded her custody of their infant daughter and gave defendant the right of reasonable visitation. He customarily visited the child one afternoon each weekend at a San Diego hotel where Janet’s…