People v. Ong Mon Foo

—The defendant was convicted of murder of the first degree for the killing of one Wong Kim Chong, and appeals from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new tri,al.

The deceased, who was a Chinese, was at work in his place of business, a small clothes dyeing and cleaning establishment on Clay Street near Stockton Street, San Francisco, between 5 and 6 o’clock P. M. on January 28, 1919, in the company of his wife and an employee, both Chinese, when a man, also Chinese, entered from the street and asked for a suit of clothes, giving his name as Mun Kee. The deceased instructed…