People v. Aro
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District, County of Plumas. The defendant was tried and convicted of murder, on the following indictment: “ Jacinto Aro is accused by this indictment of the crime of murder, a felony committed as follows: the said Jacinto Aro did, on or about the second day of November, A. D. 1854, and before the. finding of this indictment, at or near a place formerly known as the Rock River House, in said county of Plumas, with a…
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District, County of Plumas. The defendant was tried and convicted of murder, on the following indictment: “ Jacinto Aro is accused by this indictment of the crime of murder, a felony committed as follows: the said Jacinto Aro did, on or about the second day of November, A. D. 1854, and before the. finding of this indictment, at or near a place formerly known as the Rock River House, in said county of Plumas, with a Colt’s pistol and dirk-knife, willfully, feloniously, and with malice aforethought, kill, murder, and do to death, one…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Murray.
Mr. Justice Terry concurred.
The record in this case comes before us in such a loose and imperfect manner, that we are unable to consider many of the errors assigned by the prisoner’s counsel. There is no statement or bill of exceptions, properly authenticated, and the attempted appeal upon the merits is characterized by an ignorance of the former rulings of this Court, and a recklessness of human life reprehensible in the extreme.
There is, however, one point arising upon the judgment roll which fully justifies a reversal, and…
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