People v. Iams
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of conviction, and an order denying a new trial, in the Superior Court of the County of Monterey.
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Appeal from a judgment of conviction, and an order denying a new trial, in the Superior Court of the County of Monterey. Alexander, J. The following is the instruction referred to in the opinion: “ The defendant Tams is charged, by the information filed in this Court against him, on the 15th day of May, A. D. 1880, with the crime of murder, alleged to have been committed in the county of Monterey, by willfully, feloniously, and of his malice aforethought, killing and murdering one George Mattart, on the 22nd day of April, A. D. 1880. Murder is defined by our statute to be the unlawful killing…
1Opinion of the Court
Morrison, C. J.:
An information was filed by the district attorney in the Superior Court of Monterey County, charging the defendant with *124the crime of murder, and the trial resulted in a conviction of the crime of manslaughter. On the appeal, several errors are assigned to the proceedings in the Court below, which we will consider in this opinion :
1: The first objection taken by the defendant on the trial was in the form of a challenge to the panel of trial jurors drawn to serve at the July session of the Superior Court of Monterey County. It was claimed that there was a substantial departure…
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