State v. Montgomery

Information .was filed charging the defendant, Louie Montgomery, with having committed the crime of arson within Butte county, in the Eighth judicial circuit, to which charge he entered the plea of not guilty. • On the trial the jury returned the verdict of guilty, and defendant was thereupon sentenced to a term in the penitentiary.

Defendant has brought the cause before this court on appeal, assigning various errors. Only three assignments of error are discussed in appellant’s brief.

First. Appellant contends there was error in the case being-tried before Hon. Levi McGee, judge of the circuit…