People v. Garbutt

An indictment returned by the grand jury for the county of Los Angeles and filed September 25, 1924, charged the defendant with the murder of Mrs. Dorothy Lee Hunn in the city of Pasadena. He was tried upon the charge and found guilty of murder in the first degree, the verdict calling for the death penalty. Subsequently a motion for a new trial was interposed on behalf of defendant and denied. The appeal is by the defendant from the judgment of conviction and from the order denying his said motion for a new trial.

We will first outline a portion of the evidence leading up to and connected with…