People v. Niino
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Kings County and from an order denying a motion for a new trial. M. L. Short, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree. He moved for a new trial, which motion was denied, and he was thereupon sentenced to suffer the death penalty. He prosecutes this appeal from the judgment and from the order denying his motion -for a new trial.
At the trial it was shown by the undisputed evidence that on October 27, 1919, the defendant shot and killed a young Japanese woman named Misco Hayashi, whom he desired to marry but whose father had repeatedly refused consent thereto. Upon the last of such refusals the defendant almost immediately procured a…
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