California Court of Appeal

PEOPLE v. KANAWYER, C041832

Defendant's appeal of denial for failing to read requested jury instructions on the possibility of voluntary manslaughter is affirmed as the record lacks substantial evidence of sufficient provocation to arouse a homicidal rage or passion in an ordinarily reasonable person, as required to warrant an instruction on voluntary manslaughter in a heat of passion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/03/2003
• Published 12/03/2003

Judges

• SIMS, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Jerry D. Whatley, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson and Jo Graves, Assistant Attorneys General, John G. McLean and Harry Joseph Colombo, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.