People v. Lane

Haynes, C.

The defendant was tried for the murder of William G. Canfield. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, with imprisonment for life. This appeal is from the judgment rendered upon the verdict, and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

Appellant, at the time of the homicide, was a constable at Sanger, Fresno county. Late at night he went to a house of prostitution for the purpose of arresting the deceased and one Coleman for residing in a house of ill-fame, taking two men whom he found upon the street as a posse to aid him in making the…