Criminal Law—Past Offenses—Statutory Construction—General Saving Clause. — A permanent saving clause in the general body of the law, if clothed in apt language to express the purpose, is as efficient as a special clause expressly inserted in a particular statute, saving the operation o£ a repealed statute in its applicability to past criminal offenses.

Id. —Repeal by Amendment. —A statute re-enacting a former statute regulating the punishment of crime, and providing that each section thereof “ is hereby amended so as to read as follows,” repeals all contained in the sections amended that is not contained in the sections as re-enacted.

Id. — Homicide — Change of Punishment — Effect of Code. — Section 329 of the Political Code, providing that “the repeal of any law creating a criminal offense does not constitute a bar to the indictment or information and punishment of an act already committed in violation of the law so repealed, unless the intention to bar such indictment or information and punishment is expressly declared in the repealing act,” constitutes a general saving clause; and the act of the legislature of March 31, 1891, amending and re-enacting former sections, and prescribing a different and more severe punishment for murder, although containing no express saving clause, will be held to apply only to future offenses, leaving past offenses to be punished under the law in force at the date when the offenses were committed.

Id.—Construction of Code — Repeal of Law Creating Offense.—A law repealing the punishment of an offense is within the meaning of the terms of section 329 of the Political Code enacting a general saving clause, where a law is repealed “ creating ” a criminal offense.

Id. — Relation of Punishment to Crime — Effect of Repeal. — A description or definition of acts necessary to constitute a crime does not make the commission of such acts a crime, unless there is a punishment annexed. Punishment is as necessary to constitute a crime as definition, and the repeal of either is a repeal of the whole law creating the crime.

To.—Homicide — Defense of Insanity — Presumption—Burden of Proof. — A person is presumed to be sane until the contrary is shown, and where a defendant charged with murder relies upon insanity as a defense, the burden is upon him to show it by a preponderance of evidence.

Id. — Sentence — Degree of Murder. — A judgment stating that the sentence of the defendant was for murder of which he had been convicted is sufficient, although it fails to show the degree of the murder.

Id.—Information—■ Murder of Human Being.—An information charging a defendant with having murdered “ one James Collins ” sufficiently charges the murder of a human being.

Id. —Amendment of Minutes Nunc pro Tunc—Power of Trial Court — Pendency of Appeal. —The trial court has the power to amend its minutes nunc pro tunc, even pending appeal, so as to conform to the trua state of facts.