People v. Streuber
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Alameda County and from an order denying a new trial. W. E. Greene, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtGaroutte, J.
The defendant has been convicted of a felony and appeals from the judgment and order denying his motion for a new trial. By the appeal he attacks the law given and refused by the trial court.
Complaint is first made because the court refused to instruct *432the jury to the effect that, in a case otherwise doubtful upon the evidence, evidence of good character was conclusive of defendant’s innocence. This instruction was properly refused, one reason justifying this refusal being that upon no conceivable state of facts is the court authorized to instruct a jury that the defendant’s innocence…
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