People v. McManis

Opinion

GABBERT, J.

By information, appellant Kenneth McManis was charged with the murder of Cecil Sewell. (Pen. Code, § 187.) After his plea of not guilty, a jury found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter, a lesser and necessarily included offense within the crime charged. Appellant’s motions for new trial and for reduction of the verdict were denied; his application for probation was also denied. Appellant now appeals from the judgment.

Viewed most favorably in support of the jury’s verdict, the record discloses appellant was the owner and operator of the Hawaiian Village Inn, a beer bar in…