Court Opinion

ID: 9863840
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 05:55:00.387519+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:04:21.964210
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WOOD (W. J.), J.
I concur. Murder is of the first degree when it “is perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing. ...” (See. 189, Pen. Code.) To establish that the killing was deliberate and premeditated it was not necessary for the prosecution to prove that there was any appreciable space of time between the intention to kill and the act of killing. “They may be as instantaneous as successive thoughts of the mind. ’ ’ (People v. Donnelly, 190 Cal. 57 [210 P. 523].) Defendant left his reclining position in the living room, went to the kitchen and there attacked his wife. The evidence is ample to support a finding that the killing was willful, deliberate, and premeditated and consequently murder of the first degree.