People v. Vasquez

Citations

• 49 Cal. 560

Syllabus

<p>Challenge of Jubob fob Actual Bias.—If a juror is challenged for actual bias, and evidence is taken as to the existence of such bias, the decision of the Court on the question of fact,.as to whether bias exists, is final, and is not subject to review on appeal.</p> <p>Chabge to the Juey with bespeot to Evidence. — If testimony has been introduced to prove a certain matter, the Court may instruct the jury that testimony has been introduced tending to prove such matter, and such instruction is not an expression of the opinion of the Court as to the weight or effect of the evidence, nor as to what fact has been proved.</p> <p>Mubdeb, while Engaged in Bobbeby.—If several are associated together in the commission of a robbery, and one of the associates does not intend to take life, and prohibits the others from taking life, yet if one of his associates takes life while they are engaged in the robbery, and in furtherance of the common purpose to rob, he is as much guilty of murder in the first degree as though his own hand had given the fatal blow.</p>