People v. Chew Wing Gow
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County granting a new trial. P>. M. Smith, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
TEMPLE J.
The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life. A motion for a new trial was regularly made *299and submitted, and was granted by the court on the ground of the insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict. From this-order the people have appealed, as stated in the notice, on questions of both law and fact.
It is claimed by the attorney general that the judge in granting a new trial abused the discretion reposed in him by the law. It is made his duty to grant a new trial if in his opinion the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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