People v. McCarthy
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sonoma County and from an order denying a new trial. R. F. Craweord, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the eourt.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Fleet, J.
The defendant was convicted of murder of the first degree, committed in the killing of one George Fox, and was sentenced to be hanged. He appeals from the judgment and from an order denying him a new trial.
The defense was insanity, the homicide being admitted, and the exceptions urged are based upon certain rulings made on the admissibility of evidence, and directions in law to the jury, bearing upon that defense, which it is claimed were erroneous.
1. Of the objections to rulings upon evidence, the point most relied upon involves several exceptions of the same character arising on the…
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