People v. Fair
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The defendant was indicted by the Grand Jury of the City and County of San Francisco for the murder of Alexander P. Crittenden, on the evening of November 3d, 1870. The facts of the homicide are briefly, that Crittenden, on the afternoon of that day, left his residence, in San Francisco, and went to Oakland for the purpose of meeting his wife, son, and daughter, who were on…
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The defendant was indicted by the Grand Jury of the City and County of San Francisco for the murder of Alexander P. Crittenden, on the evening of November 3d, 1870. The facts of the homicide are briefly, that Crittenden, on the afternoon of that day, left his residence, in San Francisco, and went to Oakland for the purpose of meeting his wife, son, and daughter, who were on their way from the Eastern States. He met them at the wharf, went with them on the steam ferryboat “El Capitán,” and sat…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Wallace, J.:
The appellant was found guilty in the Court below of the crime of murder in the first degree, in the felonious killing of A. P. Crittenden, and was, thereupon, adjudged to suffer *145death. A motion for a new trial having been denied, this appeal is taken from .the judgment and from the order denying a new trial.
First—In impaneling the trial jury, Henry M. Beach, being examined as to his qualification to serve as a juror, stated, in substance, that he had read in the newspapers an account of the homicide; that he had not conversed with any one about it; had heard but…
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