Christensen

People v. Christensen

Good Law
1890 Cal. LEXIS 950·85 Cal. 568·24 P. 888
Supreme Court of CaliforniaSeptember 10, 1890No. 20650California1,608 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Foote, J.

The defendant was convicted of grand larceny, and she appeals from the judgment therein rendered, and from an order refusing a new trial. It is primarily claimed in her behalf that the evidence is entirely insufficient to support the verdict. The record shows very clearly that the defendant was positively identified by the prosecuting witness as the person who stole his money, although he was somewhat intoxicated at the time, and Annie O’Farrell, a witness for the defendant, although she positively swears that the defendant stole nothing, nevertheless states that she, the defendant, and the prosecuting witness were in company with each other at saloons (naming them) at the time *570 when the money is alleged to have been stolen, and although several witnesses for the defense swore to facts which negatived such statement of the prosecuting witness, yet, as the jury saw and heard those who testified before them, and resolved the conflict between them against the innocence of the defendant, we are not prepared to say that the verdict was clearly wrong. It is also very earnestly urged that the court erred in not permitting the defendant to testify in her own behalf when she desired to…

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