People v. Stakem
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Placer County. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The People v. Hodges (27 Cal. 340), is decisive of this case. The Criminal Pract. Act, Sec. 93, provides: “In the case of accessory before or after the fact, in the commission of a public offence, the jurisdiction shall be in the county where the offence of the accessory was committed, notwithstanding the principal offence was committed in another county.”
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Appeal from the County Court of Placer County. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The People v. Hodges (27 Cal. 340), is decisive of this case. The Criminal Pract. Act, Sec. 93, provides: “In the case of accessory before or after the fact, in the commission of a public offence, the jurisdiction shall be in the county where the offence of the accessory was committed, notwithstanding the principal offence was committed in another county.” A judicial construction has been put upon this statute in (27 Cal. 340). Stakem was not a principal in any sense of the word. (27 Cal. 340…
1Opinion of the CourtWallace, J.
The prisoner was indicted and convicted in the County Court of Placer County of the offence of grand larceny, alleged in the indictment to have been committed by him, in stealing certain cattle in that county.
*601On the trial it appeared that the larceny was committed in Placer County, but the evidence tended strongly to show that it was committed by persons other than the defendant, and when he was not in Placer County, but at his house in Yuba County; and that the stolen cattle were afterwards driven to Marysville, in Yuba County, where the defendant, resided, and were there received and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People v. HodgesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1865
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