Oliveria

People v. Oliveria

Good Law
127 Cal. 376·1899 Cal. LEXIS 657·59 P. 772
Supreme Court of CaliforniaDecember 29, 1899Crim. No. 566.California1,884 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Cooper, J.

Appeal from judgment and order denying motion for new trial. Defendant was charged with the crime of robbery, committed on the eleventh day of December, 1898, in the county of Alameda, by forcibly taking from the person of one Joseph He vis one hundred and eighty dollars in gold coin. He entered his plea of “not guilty,” and, after trial before a jury, was convicted and sentenced to a term of three years in the state prison at San Quentin. He does not claim that the evidence is insufficient to justify the verdict, nor that the court erred in giving or refusing any instruction to the jury. He specifies certain alleged errors which he claims are prejudicial, and which we will notice in the order presented. It is claimed that the information charges the defendant under the name of Frank Oliveria, and that the evidence shows that the name of defendant is Frank Oliveria, Jr., and that defendant objected to the evidence on the ground of such variance. The information is entitled “People of the State of California against Frank Oliveria, Jr.” In the charging part it is stated: “The said Frank Oliveria on the eleventh day of,” etc., and concludes by stating: “And all of the acts of the…

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