The State - News from Aug. 5, 1986
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A former police chief in Placerville and Willits has been convicted of misdemeanor manslaughter in connection with the traffic death of a Stockton woman nearly six years ago. A San Joaquin County Superior Court jury found George W. Koehler guilty of the death of Jolletta Ann Bryant, 28, along California 99 at Lodi on Nov. 22, 1980. Koehler had been charged with felony counts of manslaughter and hit-run driving. The jury found him innocent of the hit-run count.
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