Coker

The defendant was charged by the district attorney of Butte County with the crime of murder alleged to have been committed on the third day of August in the county of Butte. The trial resulted in a conviction of manslaughter. The defendant’s motion for a new trial having been denied, this appeal is prosecuted from the order denying the defendant’s motion and from the judgment of conviction. The points relied upon for a reversal are that the corpus delicti was not established either by circumstantial or direct evidence so as to admit of the statements or confession of the defendant and also that the venue of the offense was not sufficiently established. The testimony bearing upon these two points set out in the transcript is as follows: Harold Teeter, a witness called by the People, testified: “I live in Chico. I am eighteen years old. I am the son of Mark Teeter. My father was stabbed on Sunday night, August second, around twelve o’clock, or on Monday morning, August third. It was just about midnight. I knew my father. I saw him after he was dead. I know as a matter of fact that my father is dead. He died in the Enloe Hospital. That is in Butte County, California. I last saw my…