California Court of Appeal

Conviction of defendant for first degree murder of his wife and mother-in-law is affirmed where there was sufficient evidence to sustain defendant's convictions as defendant, believing that his wife was unfaithful, perceiving himself to have been mocked by his mother-in-law, and afraid that both wife and mother-in-law were plotting to kill him, took an ornamental knife, normally kept in the upstairs bedroom, went down the stairs with it, specifically intending to kill both women.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/25/2010
• Published 08/25/2010

Judges

• SILLS

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sharon G. Wrubel, Edmund G. Brown, Jr.