People v. Dice
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Tulare County and from an order denying a new trial. Wheaton A. Gray, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
The defendant, informed against for the murder of his brother in law, Grant Smith, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. From the judgment and from the order denying him a new trial he prosecutes his appeal.
*191The first contention of his counsel, and the one most strenuously urged upon the attention of this court, is that the verdict was contrary to the evidence, and that under the evidence it clearly appeared that the killing, which is admitted, was done in necessary defense of defendant’s wife and of himself.
The salient features of the case are the following: Mrs. Dice owned a…
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