California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Aikin, 19 Cal.App.3d 685, 97 Cal.Rptr. 251 (Cal. App. 1971):
The cumulative effect of all of the errors hereinabove discussed was, we feel, prejudicial to defendant. It is reasonably probable that the jury would not have brought in its second degree murder verdict if there had been no omissions and errors in the instructions regarding the subject of murder and manslaughter. (See People v. Watson, 46 Cal.2d 818, 836, 299 P.2d 243.) A verdict of one type or the other of manslaughter would have been justified under the evidence.
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