Lanzit

Defendant was charged with an attempt to murder his wife. From a judgment of conviction and from an order denying Mm a new trial he appeals to this court. As his main ground for the appeal he claims that the evidence is insufficient to justify the verdict.

There is evidence to show the following: On March 13, 1924, defendant’s wife owned and conducted a restaurant known as the Boyal Barbecue, on Washington Boulevard not far from the city of Venice, in the county of Los Angeles. Her brother and likewise her mother lived in Venice. There was a bedroom in the Boyal Barbecue in which defendant’s wife customarily slept. Immediately in the rear of this bedroom is a toilet. It was in this toilet that defendant and a man of the name of Woodhead, sometimes referred to by defendant as Tate, on the night of March 13, 1924, were about to place a bomb, when they were seized- and arrested by officers of the law. Defendant and his wife had been married but a short time prior to this occurrence. In the month of February and in the early part of March, 1924, defendant, who had quarreled with his wife shortly after their marriage and had left Los Angeles County; was operating a restaurant or…