People v. Evans

The defendant was charged with murder and convicted of the crime of manslaughter. He prosecutes this appeal from the judgment of conviction and the order denying his motion for a new trial.

At the time of the homicide the defendant was a special policeman of Eureka and had served in that capacity continuously for a period of more than seventeen years. The deceased, Oscar Roberts, was an Indian. He and his brother James Roberts had been drinking intoxicating liquors during the evening and were intoxicated. Shortly before the homicide they engaged in two altercations with a white man who, in…