People v. Arceo
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Third Judicial District, Monterey County. The defendant was indicted for the crime of murder, and convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be executed. He appealed from the judgment. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Sawyer, J.:
The trial of this cause was had in the County of Monterey. The Court in impanelling the trial jury, of its own motion, excused six jurors on the ground that they were “ ignorant of the language in which the proceedings of the Court are carried on.” To this action of the Court the defendant excepted. The ruling is assigned as error, and is the only one relied on to reverse the judgment.
The first section of the “ Act concerning grand and trial *42jurors ” of 1863 (Laws 1863, p. 630), as amended by the Act of 1864 (Laws 1864, p. 462), prescribes the qualifications of…
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