People v. Colburn
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Amador County and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Searls, C.
Defendant was convicted of the crime of robbery, perpetrated in the county of Amador on the seventeenth day of March, 1893.
He appeals from the judgment and from an order denying a new trial.
The information is in conformity with the provisions of the Penal Code; is direct and certain as to the offense charged, and states the facts in ordinary and concise language, so that a person of common understanding cannot but know from its perusal what is intended and charged therein.
*649It was not, therefore, subject to the demurrer interposed against it, and such demurrer was properly overruled.
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