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2 Cal. Unrep. 215

People v. Smith

California Supreme Court

Decided October 18, 1883

California Supreme Court · decided 1883-10-18

<p>APPEAL from Superior Court, San Francisco County.</p>

Decided 1883-10-18

By the COURT.

¶1The charge to the jury was taken down by the reporter; “the report” of the charge forms part of the record and is deemed excepted to: Pen. Code, sec. 1176. The section reads: “When written charges have been presented, given or refused, or when the charges have been taken down by the reporter, the question presented in said charges need not be excepted to or embodied in a bill of exceptions, but the written charges or the report, with the indorsements showing the action of the court, form part of the record, and any error in the decision of the court thereon may be taken advantage of on appeal, in like manner as if presented in a bill of exceptions.” In some copies of the statute the “or” is erroneously printed “of,” so that the clause reads “but the written charges of the report, with the indorsements,” etc.

¶2*216Even, however, if the law so read, the meaning would be the same.

¶3The verdict “guilty as charged,” is sufficient: People v. Whitley, No. 10,834, opinion filed October 3, 1883.

¶4There is no material error in the charge.

¶5Judgment and order affirmed.

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