People v. McCauley
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the district court of the seventh judicial district. The tacts, so far as the points of law decided in the ease are concerned, are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Bennett, J.
The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder at the March term of the district court held in and for the county of Nap^a, and from the judgment rendered on such conviction an appeal is taken to this court. Numerous causes have been urged by counsel for the appellant, as constituting error in the proceedings of the district court, some of which are plausible, but none of which do we deem tenable.
The first point made by the appellant is, that the judge before whom the cause was tried had no authority to preside at the trial, and that, consequently, all the…
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