People v. Romero
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Santa Barbara County and from an order denying a new trial. J. W. Taggart, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtAngellotti, J.
The defendant was informed against for the crime of assault with intent to commit murder, and was convicted of an assault with a deadly weapon. He appeals from the judgment pronounced upon said conviction and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.
1. The court instructed the jury that although the right to take life or use a deadly weapon in self-defense is unquestionable, “yet one on whom another is making a mere assault with the fist, not with intent to kill or do great bodily harm, and who is not deceived as to its character, is not justified in taking life or in using a deadly…
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