Peter
People v. Peter
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Kerrigan, J.
The defendant was charged with and convicted of the crime of assault with intent to commit murder. The appeal is from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.
The defendant asserts that the trial court erred in not granting his motion to dismiss the case, on the ground that the defendant was not brought to trial within the time prescribed by. section 1382 of the Penal Code. The information was filed on April 12, 1912, and various continuances were had up to ' June 29th, when the motion to dismiss was made. As to some of such continuances the minutes of the court fail to show that defendant objected to them, or that they were ordered without his consent; they will therefore be presumed on appeal to have been consented to by him. (People v. Douglass, 100 Cal. 1 , [ 34 Pac. 490 ]; People v. Ebanks, 117 Cal. 652 , [40 L. R. A. 269, 49 Pac. 1049 ].) Even if this were not true, defendant’s point would still be without merit, for the record shows that he consented to all of the continuances, commencing with May 17th; in other words, he consented to thirty-five days out of the seventy-eight days’ delay.