People v. Grill

The defendant was informed against by the district attorney of the county of-Sonoma for the crime of murder in billing one W. S. Pearce; he was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the state prison for life.

From the judgment of conviction and the order overruling his motion for a new trial he prosecutes this appeal. The deceased lived with his sixteen year old daughter in the country. The defendant had been stopping there for some time, working at times for others. A son of deceased had also been residing with him up to about two weeks before the homicide. The…