People v. Granice
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Thirteenth Judicial District, County of Fresno. The indictment as found and returned by the grand jury, read as follows, except the words in italics.
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Appeal from the District Court, Thirteenth Judicial District, County of Fresno. The indictment as found and returned by the grand jury, read as follows, except the words in italics. The words in italics were afterwards interpolated, by being written on the margin of the indictment, opposite the first words of lines, being the same words they precede: “H. H. Granice is accused by the grand jury of the county of Merced, State of California, of the crime of murder, a felony committed as follows: The said H. H. Gran-ice, on or about the 7th day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, at…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court :
During the progress of the trial of this action, the defendant offered to prove that certain words had been inserted in the indictment, and that certain other words of the indictment had been changed since it was filed and became a record of the court. Objection to such proof was made by the prosecution, on the ground that the defendant’s attorney had been informed by one of the attorneys for the prosecution, before the defendant pleaded to the indictment, “that the indictment had been tampered with after it had been found by the grand jury;” and “that there were plenty of…
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