(DOWNLOAD) "People V. Hatchett" by District Court of Appeal of California " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People V. Hatchett
- Author : District Court of Appeal of California
- Release Date : January 02, 1944
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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Defendant was convicted of manslaughter committed in the shooting of one Ernest Dempsey. She had originally been charged with murder, had been convicted of manslaughter, and the conviction had been reversed because of the failure of the court to instruct the jury in the law of self-defense. (People v. Hatchett (1942), 56 Cal. App. 2d 20 [132 P.2d 51].) The information had been amended to charge manslaughter. Upon appeal from the judgment and order denying her motion for new trial defendant contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict and she specifies error in the giving and refusal of instructions. It is necessary that the evidence be stated somewhat fully, not so much for the purpose of demonstrating its sufficiency to justify the verdict as for the purpose of showing that the state of the evidence was such that the failure of the court to instruct the jury fully and fairly operated to the substantial prejudice of defendant's case and resulted in a miscarriage of justice.