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People v. Davis

Supreme Court of California
Mar 16, 1899
124 Cal. 42 (Cal. 1899)

Opinion

         Department Two

         APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. B. N. Smith, Judge.

         COUNSEL:

         Byron L. Oliver, for Appellants.

         W. F. Fitzgerald, Attorney General, W. H. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, and Charles H. Jackson, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


         JUDGES: Gray, C. Haynes, C., and Chipman, C., concurred. Henshaw, J., Temple, J., McFarland, J.

         OPINION

          GRAY, Judge

         The defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of the crime of forgery. Compton, a codefendant of Davis in the information in this case, was tried and convicted in the superior court in Los Angeles county, and from such conviction he appealed, and this court reversed the judgment, holding four of the instructions of the court to the jury to be erroneous. (See People v. Compton , 123 Cal. 403.) The same instructions were repeated on the trial of the defendant Davis.

         On the authority of that case (People v. Compton, supra ), and for the reasons therein stated, I advise that the judgment herein be reversed.

         For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion the judgment is reversed.


Summaries of

People v. Davis

Supreme Court of California
Mar 16, 1899
124 Cal. 42 (Cal. 1899)
Case details for

People v. Davis

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. A. E. DAVIS et al., Appellants

Court:Supreme Court of California

Date published: Mar 16, 1899

Citations

124 Cal. 42 (Cal. 1899)
56 P. 1131

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