People v. Bowers
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from Superior Court, City and County of San Francisco; D. J. Murphy, Judge. J. Milton Bowers was indicted for the murder of his wife. The court, after the case for the prosecution had closed, and the defendant’s ease had begun, permitted a witness for the prosecution to be called under Penal' Code of California, section 1094, which provides that, for good reason, the court, in its discretion, may change the order of trial as provided by the statute.
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APPEAL from Superior Court, City and County of San Francisco; D. J. Murphy, Judge. J. Milton Bowers was indicted for the murder of his wife. The court, after the case for the prosecution had closed, and the defendant’s ease had begun, permitted a witness for the prosecution to be called under Penal' Code of California, section 1094, which provides that, for good reason, the court, in its discretion, may change the order of trial as provided by the statute. Defendant was convicted, and sentenced to be hanged, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPaterson, J.
On August 24, 1885, Mrs. Cecelia Bowers, wife of defendant, Dr. Bowers, became very ill with what appeared to he a bilious colic. On the following day, and later, physicians were called in, and, after making a diagnosis of the case, all pronounced it to be “abscess of the liver.” She was treated accordingly by the attendant physicians, but continued to suffer great pain in the right side, and to vomit and discharge large quantities of pus and bile until her death, *881which occurred November 1st following. On November 3d the coroner of the city and county of San Francisco received an anonymous…
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