Hamilton

The defendant, Fred Hamilton, was charged by an information filed in the superior court of Plumas County, on the twelfth day of August, 1919, with the murder of one Gussie Redhead, an Indian woman, on or about the twenty-seventh day of July, 1917, near Quincy, in said county of Plumas,' and on the trial of the ease the defendant was convicted of the crime of manslaughter, and judgment was pronounced thereon. This appeal is from the judgment and an order refusing to grant a new trial.

The principal point upon which defendant relies for a reversal is that the evidence is insufficient to prove the corpus delicti; that it fails to prove that any criminal violence had been used, and that the identity of the deceased was not sufficiently established.

It appears that on or about the twelfth day of April, 1919, two children while gathering wild flowers at a place called “Hospital Hill,” about one and one-eighth of a mile from the town of Quincy and about one-quarter of a mile from the county hospital, at a point about one hundred yards from the county road between Quincy and Greenville, found two human skulls. They reported the find and the officers made an investigation and found the…