People v. Ketchum
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Humboldt County, and from an order refusing a new • trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Belcher, C. C.
The defendant was charged with the crime of murder, and convicted of manslaughter. He moved for a new trial, and has appealed from the judgment and order denying his motion.
Defendant is an Indian twenty-nine years of age, and was born and raised in the county of Humboldt. He was accused of killing another Indian named Billy Barlow. At the trial, after several witnesses had been examined to prove the commission of the alleged offense, an Indian woman named Jennie Bill Ketchem was called and sworn as a witness for the prosecution. The defendant objected to her testifying, upon the…
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