People v. Atkins

Opinion

REGAN, J.

Defendants were jointly tried by jury on an indictment which charged defendant Vlot with murder (Pen. Code, § 187) and with inflicting corporal punishment or injury on a child (Pen. Code, § 273d), and which charged defendant Atkins with manslaughter (Pen. Code, § 192), inflicting corporal punishment or injury on a child (Pen. Code, § 273d) and endangering the person and health of a child (Pen. Code, § 273a, subd. (1)). The jury convicted Vlot of murder in the second degree arid inflicting corporal injury on a child; and it convicted Atkins of involuntary manslaughter, battery…