P. v. Crump
Defendant and appellant Matthew Addison Crump was charged with inflicting corporal injury on a cohabitant (Pen. Code, 273.5, subd. (a), count 1)[1]and false imprisonment ( 236, count 2). The trial court dismissed count 2 pursuant to section 995. A jury subsequently found defendant guilty of the lesser included offense of committing battery on a person with whom he was in a dating relationship ( 243, subd. (e)(1)). The court suspended imposition of sentence and placed defendant on probation for three years. On appeal, defendant contends the trial court erred in instructing the jury that committing battery on a person in a dating relationship was a lesser included offense of inflicting corporal injury on a cohabitant. Court disagree and affirm.
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