Case ID: cal-unrep_5/html/0533-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. THOMPSON.
    Crim. No. 159;
    November 30, 1896.
    46 Pac. 907.
    Criminal Law.—An Appeal from an Order Fixing the Day for the execution of a sentence of death will be dismissed where it appears that the day so fixed has long since passed.
    APPEAL from Superior Court, Los Angeles County; B. N. Smith, Judge.
    W. H. Thompson was convicted of a crime, and sentenced to death. From an order fixing the time of execution, the defendant appeals.
    Dismissed.
    
      Ben. Goodrich, D. K. Trask and Wm. A. Harris for appellant; Attorney General Fitzgerald for the people.
   PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from an order appointing a day for the execution of the judgment of death pronounced against the defendant. At the time the day was so appointed an appeal was pending from an order refusing a new trial, and the point made here (if it can be said that any point was made) was that it was error to execute the judgment pending that appeal. The time for execution of the judgment was fixed for May 22, 1896. As that time has long since passed this appeal is of no further interest, and is therefore dismissed.