Legal Opinion

People v. Taminago

California Court of Appeal

Decided November 8, 1917No. Crim. No. 558PublishedCited by 12 opinions

• APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and from an order denying a new trial. Gavin W. Craig, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

WORKS, J., pro tem.

The appellant was tried under an information charging him with the murder of one Watanabe, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to imprisonment for twenty years. The appeal is from/ the judgment and sentence and from an order denying the appellant’s motion for a new trial.

Both Taminago and Watanabe were Japanese and were employed in the kitchen of a hospital in the city of Los Angeles Under circumstances which need not now be detailed the evidence shows, without dispute, that Taminago shot Watanabe to death at the place where they were employed.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People v. ByrneCalifornia Supreme Court · 1911

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. People v. StevensCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1926
  2. People v. GangerCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1950
  3. People v. GonzalesCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1924
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