People v. Carmichael

The appellant was charged with the crime of murder. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter. He appeals from the judgment and also from the order denying his motion for a new trial. The district court of appeal reversed the judgment and the case comes before this court after an order granting a hearing herein. The facts in the case show substantially that the deceased met his death from a gunshot wound inflicted by the appellant on the eighteenth day of December, 1923. The homicide occurred at a place known as Bidwell Bar Canyon, in the county of Butte. In this canyon the deceased, just…