People v. Langton
Citations
- 67 Cal. 427
- 7 P. 843
- 1885 Cal. LEXIS 660
Syllabus
<p>Cbehinaii Law—Mtjbdeb—Insteuction—Pbesuhftion as to Intention.—In a prosecution for murder, the court instructed the jury that “ every person is presumed to intend what his acts indicate his intention to have been; and if the defendanu fired a loaded pistol at the deceased and killed him, the law presumes that the defendant intended to kill the deceased; and unless the defendant can show that his intention was other than his act indicated, the law will not hold him guiltless.” Held, that the instruction was proper.</p> <p>Id.—Dbunkenness of Defendant.—As between murder in the second degree and manslaughter, the drunkenness of the offender can form no legitimate matter of inquiry.</p>
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- holding that father’s “obligation to make payments to the education fund . . . ended when his son reached 18 because he did not agree expressly that the education payments would continue beyond the child’s majority’
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