People v. Lee Sing Park

The defendant was convicted, in the superior court of Sonoma County, of the crime of murder of the first degree, the jury having, in the exercise of the discretion committed to them by section 190 of the Penal Code, adjudged that the accused be confined in the state prison for life.

The' defendant has appealed from the judgment and the order denying his motion for a new trial, but no brief has ever been filed in support of the appeals, nor was he represented by counsel when the cause was called for hearing and argument at the regular June term of this court, upon the calendar of which the case was regularly placed for hearing and argument. The attorney-general, therefore, submitted the case upon the record.

The defendant was jointly charged by information with one William Yee and one Toy Yock of the crime of murdering one Horn Hong, on or about the eleventh day of March, 1917, at a ranch near the city of Santa Rosa, in the said county of Sonoma. He was given a separate trial, with the result as above stated.

William Yee, one of the defendant’s codefendants, was, previously to the trial of the present case, separately tried and -convicted of murder of the first degree, the jury…