People v. Collins

Citations

• 48 Cal. 277
• 1874 Cal. LEXIS 144

Syllabus

<p>Evidence op Flight op Cbiminal.—If four men jointly commit a robbery by taking money from the person of another, and are immediately arrested, and one of them breaks away from the officers and runs some distance before he is retaken, on the sepárate trial of one of the four who did not flee, evidence of the flight of the other may be received for the purpose of showing that, after his arrest, he had the opportunity to throw away the money, if, after being taken to the prison, no money is found on the persons of the robbers.</p> <p>Evidence Admissible fob a Paetichlab Puepose.j—If, on the trial of one charged with a crime, evidence which is competent only for a particular purpose is admitted generally, and the counsel foi' the defendant fails to ask the Court to limit the evidence to the purpose for which it was competent, or to ask a charge to the jury to that effect, the defendant cannot afterwards complain that the testimony was inadmissible for some other purpose.</p>