Opinion

People v. Buckley

  • 143 Cal. 375
  • 77 P. 169
  • 1904 Cal. LEXIS 828
Court
California Supreme Court
Filed
May 31, 1904
Status
Published
Author
Lorigan
On the bench
Angellotti, Lorigan, Beatty
Cited by
66 cases
Authority
More cited than 35.0%

The opinion

LORIGAN, J., concurring.

I concur fully in the foregoing opinion of Justice Angellotti, except that I am not disposed to hold that the giving of an instruction as to verbal admissions is violative of the constitutional provision that “judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact.” On that point I accord with the declaration in

People

v.

Wardrip,

141 Cal. 232 , (in the opinion by the court on rehearing I did not participate,) that such an instruction “states a mere commonplace within the general knowledge of juries; and we do not think that either the giving or the refusing of such an

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instruction would warrant reversal.” I think that this sufficiently disposes of such an instruction, and I am not inclined to go further.

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