People v. Ye Foo

Defendant was charged by the district attorney of the crime of murder in killing one Louie Mong with malice aforethought on the third day of October, 1905, in the city of Fresno. After a trial, he was found guilty of murder in the first degree and judgment was accordingly entered, sentencing him to imprisonment for life. This appeal is from the judgment and order denying his motion for a new trial.

There was evidence to the effect that shortly after 10 o’clock P. M. of the day named in the information the deceased was shot and killed while in his room in Chinatown in the city of Fresno, by the defendant, who had just entered the room accompanied by four other Chinamen, all of whom were armed, and some of whom .took part in the killing. After the killing the defendant and the four other Chinamen who were evidently acting in concert with him, left the room and came out of the stairway of the house into the lighted alley with their guns still in their hands. No claim is made as to the insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict, but it is argued that certain errors of law occurred during the trial to defendant’s injury, for which a new trial should have been granted, and of…