People v. Adams
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Robert Ferral, Edwin M. Sweeney, and J. J. Guilfoyle, for Appellant. Tirey L. Ford, Attorney-General, C. N. Post, Assistant Attorney-General, and Lewis F. Byington, District Attorney, for Respondent.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Defendant, charged with murder, was ■convicted of murder in the second degree. He appeals from the judgment and from the order denying him a new trial.
It is first urged against the verdict that it is unsupported by the evidence. Defendant sought to establish self-defense. It, was, however, proved by the prosecution that defendant, who was a barber in the service of the deceased, upon the morning of the homicide had been discharged by his employer. In the barber-shop at the time were the deceased, the defendant, and the porter, Patterson. The defendant accused the porter of having carried…
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