People v. Weber
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Grove L. Johnson, Ben P. Tabor, F. P. Tuttle, and Samuel J. Pullen, for Appellant. The evidence was circumstantial and insufficient for conviction. The court erred in instructions on reasonable doubt, which were more open to criticism than those held incorrect by this court.
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The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Grove L. Johnson, Ben P. Tabor, F. P. Tuttle, and Samuel J. Pullen, for Appellant. The evidence was circumstantial and insufficient for conviction. The court erred in instructions on reasonable doubt, which were more open to criticism than those held incorrect by this court. (People v. Chin Heong, 86 Cal. 332, 24 Pac. 1021; People v. Kernaghan, 72 Cal. 609, 14 Pac. 566; People v. Paulsell, 115 Cal. 6, 46 Pac. 734; People v. Bemmerly, 87 Cal. 177, 25 Pac. 266; People v. Ah Sing, 51 Cal. 572; People v. Lenon, 72 Cal. 625, 21 Pac. 967.) The court…
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
On November 10, 1904, Julius Weber with his family resided in Auburn, Placer County. His family consisted of his wife, Mary Weber; his daughter, Bertha Weber, aged eighteen; a son, Earl Weber, aged nine; and a second son, Adolph Julius Weber, aged twenty, the defendant herein. The home was a two-story frame building situated within its own grounds, some little distance away from the] house of any neighbor. At about six o’clock of the evening of November 10th, the family was seen alive in the house by passers-by. At 7:35 of the same evening the house was discovered to be on fire, and at 7:42…
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