People v. Searle
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Contra Costa County, and from an order denying a new trial. A. B. McKenzie, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtKerrigan, J.
The defendant was charged in an information by the district attorney of the county of Contra Costa with the crime of murder. He was tried, convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison at San Quentin for a term of eight years. The present appeal is from the judgment and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.
Appellant presents but three grounds of appeal, viz., insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict; that the corpus delicti was not proved independently of the extrajudicial admissions of the defendant, and that the view by the jury…
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