Soldavini

The defendant was charged by information with the murder of one Taechi, alleged to have been committed on the twenty-sixth day of October, 1917, in Marin County. He was tried and convicted of manslaughter, an indeterminate sentence being imposed. From the judgment and from an order denying a new trial defendant appeals.

The only question raised upon the appeal is whether the trial court erred in permitting the wife of the deceased to testify that the defendant had made improper advances to her several months previous to the homicide. During the trial there was introduced in evidence, without objection, a letter written by Taechi to defendant, which contained veiled threats and in which Taechi called the defendant “traitor,” and from which it was apparent that ill feeling existed between them, the reason for the unfriendly relation being couched in ambiguous terms. The defendant, when asked what there was in the letter which made him feel so badly that he cried, replied, “There was there that I was a defamer and defam ing his family and ¡those things.” Upon redirect examination the defendant denied that he had ever defamed Tacehi’s family or that he had ever done anything to him…