People v. French

CHIPMAN, C.

Appellant, French, with two other defendants, was informed against for the crime of grand larceny by stealing certain cattle in Trinity County and afterwards driving them into Mendocino County and there selling them. French had a separate trial, and was found guilty. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and from the order denying motion for a new trial.

Defendant asked and was refused an instruction, numbered nine, that “evidence of good character is evidence relevant to the question of guilty or not guilty, and is to he considered by you in connection with the other facts, ’…