People v. Hoy Yen
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court, Placer County. On the trial of the defendant, who had been indicted for the crime of grand larceny, alleged in the indictment to have been committed by feloniously stealing certain money of one Ah Mung, the District Attorney called Ah Mung as a witness for the people, who testified, among other things, that on the day succeeding the day of the defendant’s arrest, the defendant was taken by the Sheriff, who had him in custody, into a meeting of…
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Appeal from the County Court, Placer County. On the trial of the defendant, who had been indicted for the crime of grand larceny, alleged in the indictment to have been committed by feloniously stealing certain money of one Ah Mung, the District Attorney called Ah Mung as a witness for the people, who testified, among other things, that on the day succeeding the day of the defendant’s arrest, the defendant was taken by the Sheriff, who had him in custody, into a meeting of Chinese merchants at Auburn, held in a brick store, when and where one of said merchants said to defendant, “ Hoy Ten, if…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Sawyer, J.:
The statement of the prisoner that he would point out the place where the money was buried, in connection with the fact that he did, in pursuance of this promise, afterward point out the place, and the fact proved by other witnesses, that the stolen money was found buried at the place indicated, was admissible in evidence, although the promise to point out the place was not voluntarily made. (1 Greenl. Ev. 281.) The statement, “ I buried it in the ground there,” was inadmissible, it being a part of an involuntary admission. But the Court struck it out on motion of…
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