Adams

A jury found defendant guilty of a violation of Penal Code section 245 (assault with a deadly weapon). Defendant appealed from the judgment entered.

After our study of the record, our conclusion accords with that of the attorney appointed by us to represent defendant on this appeal—that the appeal has no merit. Appellant has neither filed a brief on his own behalf nor indicated his grounds of appeal otherwise.

The victim, defendant’s wife, Shirley, testified that she and defendant had been separated for about four months prior to the acts for which appellant was convicted, and that she and her 6-year-old son (by a former marriage) were staying at her mother’s home in Stockton. Appellant had also been allowed to stay there during several days prior to the incident but no reconciliation had been effected. On Sunday, April 1, 1962, appellant walked into the house while his wife was talking on the telephone and defendant struck her, knoek *421 ing her off a table on which she was sitting. She ran into the bathroom, locking the door. Appellant knocked down the door and struck her again several times. She went into the bedroom.

The wife’s sister, Carol Smith, also testified for the…