California Supreme Court December 3, 1900, Crim. No. 650. (People v. Brown)

GAROUTTE, J.

Defendant has been convicted of the crime of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He now attacks the evidence as not being* sufficient to support the ver

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diet. The killing is conceded, and self-defense was the plea at the trial.

There was bad blood between these two men, and communicated threats of bodily harm had been made by both a short time prior to the homicide.