People v. Schell

Citations

• 123 Cal. 358
• 55 P. 1006
• 1899 Cal. LEXIS 1076

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law—Larceny of Horse—Evidence—General Question— Failure to Show Admissibility.—Upon the trial of a defendant accused of grand larceny in the stealing of a gray horse belonging to a person named, it is not error to refuse to permit a witness for the defendant to answer a general question as to a conversation between the defendant and another person in regard to a gray horse and where defendant might find it, without directing the mind of the judge to an admissible conversation, or offering to prove a particular conversation shown by the subsequent evidence of the defendant to have related to the manner of obtaining the horse in question.</p>