People v. Bowers
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order denying a new trial. ■ The principal facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order denying a new trial. ■ The principal facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The conduct of the prosecuting attorney therein referred to consisted of the drawing of a written paper from his pocket, during his closing argument, accompanied by a statement to the jury that as counsel for the defendant “had gone out of the record” to give his statement with regard to defendant’s return to Chicago and the other facts in the case, and that as he did not wish to put his recollection against…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court.
— The defendant was convicted of murder, and judgment of death passed against him. He was charged with having poisoned his wife by the use of phosphorus. The evidence against him is almost entirely circumstantial. The existence of the most important facts was established only by the opinion of experts, and their existence is disputed by experts apparently equally competent. The significance of the supposed facts as inculpatory circumstances was also matter of difference. The judgment of medical experts was also taken upon the question whether all the clinical symptoms and…
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