People v. Hodges

By the Court, Shafter, J.

Thomas B. Pool was indicted, jointly with three others, by the Grand Jury of the County of El'Dorado, for the murder of Joseph M. Staples, which murder was alleged to have been committed in said county, July 1, 1864; and it was further charged in the indictment that Hodges, the appellant, within said county, “incited, counselled, hired and commanded” the said Pool and others to commit the said murder.

The appellant, on a separate trial, was found guilty by the jury of murder in the second degree, and he was thereupon sentenced by the Court to confinement in the State…