People v. Watters

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of the defendant upon the charge of murder and from the order denying the defendant a new trial. The homicide, if committed as charged in the information, occurred on the twenty-seventh day of January, 1926, in the city of Sacramento,, where at the time the defendant resided with his wife and their three minor children the eldest of which was a girl, at that time of the age of ten years, and was the main witness for the presecution and the only witness who testified to the direct act of killing. Immediately after the date of the alleged homicide…