People v. Bowen
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Sutter County. The defendant was convicted, and appealed from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Wallace, C. J.:
On the trial of the prisoner upon an indictment for the alleged crime of grand larceny, one Davis was permitted to testify as a witness. Davis had been convicted of divers felonies in the Courts of the State, for which he had been adjudged to suffer and had suffered imprisonment in the Penitentiary. The record of these convictions was produced by the prisoner, who thereupon objected that Davis was thereby rendered incompetent to' testify in' the case. It appeared by the records produced and put in evidence by the prisoner in support of his objection, that in July,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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