California Court of Appeal

Penal Code section 591, which makes it a crime injure or obstruct a telephone line, applies to a defendant who removed the battery from a cordless phone during an argument with his estranged wife even though she was still able to call the police from another phone.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/12/2001
• Published 09/12/2001

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  John E. Roth, Public Defender, and Christine Laicato Bordner, Deputy Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant., Dennis L. Stout, District Attorney, and Robert P. Brown, Deputy District Attorney, for Plaintiff and Respondent.