People v. Davis
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Lake County, and from an order refusing a new trial. On the trial, the defendant interposed a challenge to the entire panel of jurors, on the ground that the manner in which they had been drawn and returned did not comply with the requirements of the Code of Civil Procedure in the following particulars: 1. That the supervisors selected a list of jurors from their respective townships, without any apparent effort to arrive at a…
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Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Lake County, and from an order refusing a new trial. On the trial, the defendant interposed a challenge to the entire panel of jurors, on the ground that the manner in which they had been drawn and returned did not comply with the requirements of the Code of Civil Procedure in the following particulars: 1. That the supervisors selected a list of jurors from their respective townships, without any apparent effort to arrive at a proper proportion of the inhabitants; 2. That the aggregate of the lists thus prepared was less than the number of names…
1Opinion of the CourtMcKinstry, J.
Appellant was found guilty of murder of the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison.
The information is as follows:—
“ State op California against James Davis. Information for murder.
“ James Davis is accused by the district attorney of said Lake County, by this information, of the crime of murder, committed as follows:—
“ The said James Davis, on the ninth day of December, A. D. 1886, at the said county of Lake, and state of California, did willfully, feloniously, premeditatedly, and of his malice aforethought make an assault in and upon one William Krumdick, a human…
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