People v. Huntington

The information charged defendant with murder, and the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, upon which judgment was rendered, sentencing him to ten years’ imprisonment in the state prison. He appeals from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

Appellant contends that the following instruction was erroneous: “ ‘Moral certainty’ is that degree of proof which the law requires of moral evidence. ‘Moral certainty’ is described as a state of impression produced by facts in which a reasonable mind feels a sort of coercion or necessity to act in accordance with it.” In…