Legal Opinion

People v. Wilson

California Court of Appeal

Decided March 26, 1918No. Crim. No. 560PublishedCited by 8 opinions

APPEAL from a judgment of the (Superior Court of Santa Barbara County, and from an order denying a new trial. S. E. Crow, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtJames, J.

Defendant was charged by an information of the district attorney of the county of Santa Barbara with having on the twenty-ninth day of April, 1917, murdered Pedro Lopez. The jury by its verdict found him guilty of the crime of manslaughter and the trial judge sentenced him to serve a term of ten years in the penitentiary. Motion for a new trial was made and denied and an appeal was then taken both from the judgment and from the order denying that motion.

The killing occurred while appellant, who was at the time a deputy constable, was assisting one Knight, the constable under whom appellant…

2Cited by8 opinions

  1. People v. TorresCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1949
  2. Cerri v. United StatesDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1948
  3. Weeks v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1983
  4. El Pueblo de Puerto Rico v. Burgos DávilaSupreme Court of Puerto Rico · 1954
  5. People v. AllisonCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1919

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