People v. Machado
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from Superior Court, San Luis Obispo County; E. P. Unangst, Judge. John Machado was convicted of grand larceny and he appeals. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, C.
The -defendant was indicted with another for the crime of grand larceny. The property stolen is described as “one cow, the same being the property then and there of Hathaway and Branch,” etc. The indictment was demurred to on the ground of the insufficiency of this description. The description, I think, was sufficiently certain: 12 Ency. Pl. & Pr., pp. 977, 983 et seq.; People v. Littlefield, 5 Cal. 355, affirmed in People v. Ah Woo, 28 Cal. 211; People v. Stanford, 64 Cal. 27, 28 Pac. 106.
It is claimed the court erred in refusing to give the following instruction: “The jury have a…
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