People v. O'Brien
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order refusing a new trial. The defendant was convicted of the crime of embezzlement. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMorrison, C. J.
The defendant was charged, in an information filed by the district attorney of San Francisco, with the embezzlement of a certain sum of money, to wit, $1000, the same being the property of the state, and on the trial he was called and examined as a witness on his own behalf. On the examination in chief his testimony was directed and confined to the alleged embezzlement of the particular sum of money mentioned in the information, but on the cross-examination he was *603examined generally as a witness in the case. This course of proceeding was objected to very frequently by his attorney, but the…
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