Singh
People v. Singh
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Preston, J.
On October 29, 1931, the district attorney of Butte County filed an information in the Superior Court of Butte County, charging the defendants Mukand Singh, Amer Singh and Indar Singh (sometimes known as Needham Singh) with the crime of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder, alleged to have been committed on the eighth day of October, 1931, near the town of Richvale, Butte County, California. On November 18, 1931, in the same court, the district attorney filed an information charging the defendant Sundar Singh with the same offense, alleging it to have been committed at the same time and place and in company with the other defendants just named. The two actions were consolidated for trial, and w'ere tried upon the informations as filed, and after such trial, the defendants Mukand Singh, Amer Singh and Sundar Singh 'were convicted of the offense set forth in said information, and the defendant Indar Singh (sometimes known as Needham Singh) at the same time, was found guilty of the offense of assault with a deadly weapon. This appeal is prosecuted by the defendants herein, jointly, from the judgment of conviction as made, entered and rendered against each of…