Martin

The defendant was charged, under section 601 of the Penal Code, with having, on the nineteenth day of March, 1907, at the county of Alameda, deposited and exploded dynamite at and near the house of Prank B. Ogden. Upon her trial she was found guilty, as charged, by the verdict of the jury, and before judgment moved for a new trial. Her motion was denied, and judgment pronounced of imprisonment for the term of her natural life. Prom the judgment and order she in due time appealed to this court. The record upon appeal consists of the judgment-roll and a full transcript of the reporter’s notes of all the proceedings before the trial court, and is contained in five volumes consisting of 2,770 pages of printed matter. The labor of this court, however, has been greatly lessened by the very systematic and lawyer-like manner in which counsel upon both sides have briefed the case.

No attack is made by appellant upon the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, nor upon the correctness of the instructions to the jury. Appellant relies for a reversal solely upon the rulings of the court in admitting evidence and in refusing to strike out evidence that had been admitted over…