People v. Brown
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Kern County and from an order denying a new trial. J. W. Mahon, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtGaroutte, J.
Defendant has been convicted of the crime of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He now attacks the evidence as not being* sufficient to support the ver diet. The killing is conceded, and self-defense was the plea at the trial.
There was bad blood between these two men, and communicated threats of bodily harm had been made by both a short time prior to the homicide. The single eyewitness to the tragedy, a boy of twenty years of age, testified to facts which, if true, show the defendant to be guilty of murder. The defendant testified that the deceased, at the time the fatal shot was…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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