People v. Yoakum

By the Court, Wallace, C. J.:

The prisoner having been found guilty of the crime of murder in the-first degree in the felonious killing of one Johnson, brings this appeal from the judgment of death rendered against him thereon, and from an order denying his motion for a new trial. Upon the argument of the case several alleged errors were relied upon, but the conclusion to which we have arrived, upon one of these will render unnecessary the consideration of the others.

*567The prisoner before the trial made an application, in conformity to the provisions of the Penal Code, for the removal of the…