People v. Ferry
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order denying a new trial. The following is the last assignment of error referred to in the opinion:— “The court erred in giving the following instruction: Formerly, a man interested in a case, civil or criminal, was not allowed to testify at all.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order denying a new trial. The following is the last assignment of error referred to in the opinion:— “The court erred in giving the following instruction: Formerly, a man interested in a case, civil or criminal, was not allowed to testify at all. The experience of the world seemed to. demonstrate satisfactorily to the law-makers that a man who wms interested directly, even where money only was involved, ought not to be heard, and especially that criminals, persons charged with crime, ought not…
1Opinion of the CourtThornton, J.
The defendant was accused, by information, of the crime of robbery, was convicted, and prosecutes this appeal to this court from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial. Several questions are made on the charge; among others, *33on this portion: “You must be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt. What a reasonable doubt is depends upon definition. It must be such doubt as nearly approaches conviction. I mean, the opinion of his guilt must nearly approach what is called absolute conviction. It must approach it nearly; but if it .satisfies you to that extent so that you can…
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