People v. Swift

Citations

• 66 Cal. 348
• 5 P. 505
• 1885 Cal. LEXIS 432

Syllabus

<p>Mübdeb — Manslaughter—Instructions.—In a prosecution for murder, an erroneous instruction as to what is necessary to reduce an unlawful killing from murder to manslaughter will not warrant a reversal, if the defendant was only convicted of manslaughter. In such case he could not have heen prejudiced hy the instruction.</p>