People v. Williams
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of conviction, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, and from an order denying a motion in arrest of judgment in the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco.
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Appeal from a judgment of conviction, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, and from an order denying a motion in arrest of judgment in the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Ferral, J. The information in this case was as follows: “(Title of Cause.) In the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, the twelfth day of April, A. d. eighteen hundred and eighty-one, John E. Williams is accused by the District Attorney by this information of the crime of felony, committed as follows: The said John E. Williams on the seventeenth…
1Opinion of the Court
Thornton, J.:
We have examined the information in this case, and consider it good. The acts constituting the offense are stated in ordinary and concise language, and in such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended. (Penal Code, § 950.) Every person of ordinary intelligence understands what the crime against nature with a human being is.
We find no error in the instruction to which our attention is called, and the judgment and order are affirmed.
Sharpstein, J., and Morrison, C. J., concurred.
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