People v. Yslas
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Santa Clara County. The testimony for the prosecution showed that the defendant entered the house of the prosecutrix and called for liquor, and was refused. He insisted, and it was given to him, when he called on the prosecutrix to drink, and upon her declining to do so, throwed the tumbler on the floor, threatened to kill her, and seized a hatchet and started towards her having it raised in a threatening attitude.
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Appeal from the County Court of Santa Clara County. The testimony for the prosecution showed that the defendant entered the house of the prosecutrix and called for liquor, and was refused. He insisted, and it was given to him, when he called on the prosecutrix to drink, and upon her declining to do so, throwed the tumbler on the floor, threatened to kill her, and seized a hatchet and started towards her having it raised in a threatening attitude. The prosecutrix, when the defendant had approached within seven or eight feet of her, fled through the door into an adjoining room, and locked the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Sanderson, C. J.
The defendant was indicted for an assault with intent to commit murder, tried and convicted as charged.
At the trial the defense proposed to impeach the testimony of the prosecutrix by proving her to be of a notoriously bad character fbr chastity. The testimony was rejected by the Court, and we are asked to reverse the judgment upon the *633ground that the decision of the Court in that respect was erroneous.
That the ruling of the Court is sustained by the great mass of authority is not disputed by counsel for appellant; but it is insisted, notwithstanding, that the…
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