People v. Burns
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Mendocino County and from an order denying a new trial. J. Q. White, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
The defendant, having been charged by information filed by the district attorney of Mendocino County with the crime of murder, was adjudged guilty by the jury of the crime of manslaughter, and he brings the cause to this court on an appeal from both the judgment and the order denying his application for a new trial.
The homicide occurred in a hop-field of a Mr. Hildreth in Mendocino County, on the night of the eighteenth of September, 1914.
The defendant, who is an Indian, with other Indians and a number of white persons, was, at the time of the homicide, engaged in picking hops. It appears…
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