People v. Tisdale

Sharpstein, J.:

On the 6th day of May, 1880, an information for felony was presented and filed in the Superior Court of Colusa County, by which the defendants are charged with having, on the 22nd day of December, 1879, cut, broken, and injured a levee and embankment erected by Reclamation District No. 108. The information was demurred to by the defendants on several grounds, and the demurrer was sustained by the Court; and from the judgment this appeal is taken.

The main ground upon which the counsel for the respondents relies, in support of the judgment, is, that the law which made the acts…