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2 Cal. Unrep. 447

People v. Prather

California Supreme Court

Decided March 10, 1885

California Supreme Court · decided 1885-03-10

The defendant was convicted on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder, and on appeal from an order denying him a new trial assigned as error certain portions of the charge of the judge to the jury.

Decided 1885-03-10

By the COURT.

¶1As the evidence is not before us, it is our duty to affirm the judgment and order denying a new trial, unless some one of the instructions was erroneous in any conceivable state of the evidence. Portions of the charge may be subject to criticism, and are not to be commended as models of clear and accurate statements of propositions.of law; but other portions explain these, so that the charge, as a whole, fairly presents the law bearing on the evidence which may be assumed to have been before the jury. The instructions, therefore, are not materially erroneous.

¶2Judgment and order affirmed.

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