People v. Schmidt
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and from an order denying a new trial. Frank R Willis, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Nathan C. Coghlan, Edwin V. McKenzie, Job Harriman, J. H. Ryckman, and William F. Herron, for Appellant. U. S. Webb, Attorney-General, Robert M. Clarke, Deputy Attorney-General, Thomas Lee Woolwine, District Attorney, and A. H. Van Cott, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.
1Opinion of the CourtJames, J.
Appeal from a judgment directing the imprisonment of the defendant in the state penitentiary for the period of his natural life, and also from an order denying his motion for a new trial.
The defendant was accused hy an indictment of a grand jury of the county of Los Angeles, in which several other defendants were named, of having on the first day of October, 1910, feloniously and with malice aforethought murdered one Charles Hagerty. The indictment was filed on the fifth day of May, 1911. Defendant not being apprehended until the year 1915, he was then placed upon trial, which after a lengthy…
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