People v. Milgate
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, Sacramento County. The prisoner was tried and found guilty of the murder of one Henry Tillman. The facts and errors assigned will be found distinctly stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Murray, C J, delivered the opinion of the Court.
Heydenfeldt, J., concurred.
The first error assigned by the appellant is the refusal of the Court below to permit one of the witnesses to testify for what purpose the shot gun, with which the homicide was committed, was loaded and used. This question was wholly immaterial. It was already in proof by the appellant's own witness, that he had gone to the house and taken the gun for the purpose of protecting himself against the dec*129eased; whether it was loaded with fine shot for killing birds or not, Was of no consequence. It is sufficient that it was…
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