Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

82 Cal. 620

People v. McConnell

California Supreme Court

Decided January 29, 1890

California Supreme Court · decided 1890-01-29

<p>Criminal Law—Demurrer to Information—Want of Jurisdiction — Illegal Commitment. — A demurrer to an information on the ground that the defendant has not been legally committed by a magistrate is not permissible, under section 1004 of the Penal Code. The point must be made on a motion to set aside the information.</p> <p>Id.—Motion in Arrest of Judgment.— A motion in arrest of judgment must be based upon defects appearing on the face of the information; otherwise it cannot prevail.</p>

Relies on People v. Johnson · Ex parte Moan

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1890-01-29

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2018

9 state decisions

301890190019101920193019401950196019701980199020002010decided

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 →

Foote, C.

¶1The defendant was convicted of the crime of burglary in the first degree. Prom the judgment rendered in the premises, and an order refusing him a new trial, he appeals.

¶2The ground upon which his contention is based is, that he was not legally committed by a magistrate, and for that reason the superior court, which has tried him, had no jurisdiction to do so. ■ He did not make any motion to set aside the information, but raised the question by demurrer.

¶3In order to sustain a demurrer to the information on the ground that the trial court is without jurisdiction of the offense charged therein, the want of such jurisdiction must appear from the face of the information. (Pen. Code, sec. 1004.)

¶4A demurrer to an information on the ground that the defendant has not been legally committed by a magistrate is not permissible under the section of the Penal *621Code, supra. The point must be made on a motion to set aside the information. (Pen. Code, secs. 995, 996; Ex parte Moan, 65 Cal. 218.)

¶5The motion in arrest of judgment made herein could not prevail, because it should have been founded upon defects in the information appearing on the face thereof. (Pen. Code, secs. 1004, 1185; People v. Johnson, 71 Cal. 392.)

¶6The defendant asserts, in the points and authorities filed on his behalf, that it appears from the transcript he interposed a motion to set aside the information when he was arraigned, but the transcript fails anywhere to show that a motion to set aside the information was ever made.

¶7We therefore advise that the judgment and order be affirmed.

¶8Vancliff, C., and Gibson, C., concurred.

The Court.

¶9— For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion, the judgment and order are affirmed.

¶10Heaing in Bank denied.

/82/cal/620 · .json · Public domain