92 Cal. 568
Decided December 30, 1891
California Supreme Court · decided 1891-12-30
The defendants were convicted of the crime of robbery, committed on the twelfth day of August, 1890, in taking twenty dollars from the pocket of one Loo Goon, a China-man. Loo Goon testified in chief that the robbery was committed about half-past twelve o’clock, at noon, on the sidewalk of Mission Street, near Eighth Street, while on his way with a basket to 129 Eighth Street, where he kept a wash-house.
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Decided 1891-12-30
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1962
9 state decisions
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¶1I dissent. The court erred, I think, in permitting the prosecution to show that the defendant had asked a police-officer whether the charge could be reduced to petty larceny. (Wharton’s Crim. Ev., sec. 655; State v. Emerson, 48 Iowa, 172.)
¶2I think the court erred in excluding the question asked by defendants in the cross-examination of the prosecuting witness, Loo Goon.