People v. Devine
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Wallace, C. J.:
The prisoner was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, in the felonious killing of-one August Kamp, and being thereupon adjudged to suffer death, he brings this appeal from the judgment, and from an order entered denying his motion for a new trial.
It is alleged in the indictment that Kamp was murdered by the prisoner on the 15th day of May, 1871, at the City and County of San Francisco, by means of a pistol shot. Without attempting an extended outline of the voluminous testimony adduced upon the part of the prosecution, it is suiiieient to say that…
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