People v. Santana

Mb. Chiee Justice Del Tobo

delivered the opinion of the court.

After a verdict of voluntary manslaughter had been rendered by the jury in the criminal prosecution brought against *12Lorenzo Santana for the murder of Julio Dieppa, the defendant applied for a new trial. The court denied his petition on March 10, 1937, and seven days thereafter sentenced him to three years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Defendant appealed from the refusal of a new trial and from the judgment. Both appeals have been prosecuted together, and the following errors, attributed to the lower court, have been assigned by…