People v. Chin Mook Sow
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The defendant was charged by the indictment with having murdered Tee Ah Chin by stabbing him with a knife, on the tenth day-of December, 1875. The indictment was found in the County Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and was transmitted by the clerk to the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District, for trial.
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Appeal from the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The defendant was charged by the indictment with having murdered Tee Ah Chin by stabbing him with a knife, on the tenth day-of December, 1875. The indictment was found in the County Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and was transmitted by the clerk to the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District, for trial. There were, at the time, in the city and county of San Francisco, five judicial districts, each' having jurisdiction over the entire city and county. The trial was set for March…
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By the Court:
Juries composed in part of denizens and in part of aliens are not known to our system of laws. The statute determines the qualifications of jurors, and prescribes the mode of drawing and empaneling them: aliens are expressly prohibited from serving in that capacity. (Code Civ. Pro. sec. 198.)
The court below properly held that the evidence failed to show that the deceased did not entertain such belief in a future state as rendered his dying declaration admissible. The inquiry as to religious belief of deceased was not admissible on the point of competency. (People v. Sanford, 43…
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