People v. Lee

By an information filed by the district attorney of Mendocino County, defendant was charged with the crime of murder, committed on the sixteenth day of May, 1917, the deceased being his sister, Mary Long. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter and the judgment of the court was that the defendant “be punished by imprisonment in the state prison of the state of California for the term of from one to ten years.” The defendant appeals from an order denying his motion for a new trial and from the judgment.

Briefly but generally stated, the facts leading up to the commission of the homicide are…