Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

108 Cal. App. 24

290 P 887

People v. Hurst

California Court of Appeal

Decided August 27, 1930

California Court of Appeal · decided 1930-08-27

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1930-08-27

How this case has been cited

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1951

9 state decisions

70193019401950decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

HOUSER, J.

¶1 Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of the crime of burglary, and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

¶2 The following are the “grounds of decision” herein:

(1) The trial court committed no error in admitting in evidence the extrajudicial statement made to defendant to the effect that he wished to be permitted to plead guilty to a charge of “receiving stolen property and take a county jail sentence.” A painstaking examination by the trial court of the situation and circumstances present at the time the statement was made by defendant discloses the fact that it related entirely to the crime for which defendant was then on trial, and the jury was carefully instructed by the court to that effect. In substance, the statement made by defendant amounted to an admission that he had received the property in question into his possession “knowing the same to have been stolen” (see. 496, Pen. Code); and inasmuch as other evidence in the case established the fact that the stolen property was found in an automobile belonging to defendant before he had had time, after the burglary was committed and preceding his attempted arrest and subsequent flight from the burglarized premises, to convey the property from the scene of the burglary, the relevancy of the questioned evidence may not be doubted.
(2) The trial court did not err, nor abuse its discretion, in denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

¶3 The judgment and the order denying the motion for a new trial are affirmed.

¶4 Conrey, P. J., and York, J., concurred.

/108/calapp/24 · .json · Public domain