People v. Douglass
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Fresno County, and from an order denying a new trial. The verdict of the jury found the defendant guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Fresno County, and from an order denying a new trial. The verdict of the jury found the defendant guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon. The judgment contained the recital that the “ said Percy Douglass, having answered and confessed to a previous conviction of manslaughter, and having.been convicted, in this court, of thé crime of assault with a deadly weapon, it is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the said Percy Douglass be punished by imprisonment in the state prison of the state of California, at Folsom, for the term of…
1Opinion of the CourtThornton, J.
The defendant was convicted of the crime of assault with a deadly weapon. This appeal is by him from the judgment, and an order denying his motion for a new trial.
Several points are presented and argued on behalf of appellant, which we will proceed to consider.
The defendant-was accused, by the information, of assault with a deadly wrnapon, and of a prior conviction of a felony, viz., manslaughter. On his arraignment he pleaded guilty to the prior conviction of manslaughter, and not guilty as to the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. When the jury had been impaneled and sworn, it is…
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