California Supreme Court August 23, 1900, Crim. No. 621. (People v. Melendrez)

SMITH, C.

The defendant was convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree, and appeals from the judgment and from an order denying a new trial.

The killing

took

place in the county of San Diego, near the village of Hedges. A man had been stabbed there by one Bosales, who had escaped.