Case Name: PEOPLE v. H. E. BROWN
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1880
Citations: 56 Cal. 405
Docket Number: No. 10,514
Parties: PEOPLE v. H. E. BROWN.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 56
Pages: 405–406

Head Matter:
[No. 10,514.
Department Two.]
PEOPLE v. H. E. BROWN.
XifSTBtrcTioir—CBntntAr, Law. — The following instruction to the jury held to lie erroneous: “ You are not legally bound to acquit the defendant, because you may not be entirely satisfied that the defendant, and no other person, committed the alleged offense.”
Appeal from a judgment of conviction, in the Superior Court of Mendocino County. McGabvey, J.
J. A. Cooper, for Appellant.
A. L. Hart, Attorney-General, for Respondent.

Opinion:
By the Court :
Defendant was convicted in the Superior Court of Mendocino County of the crime of murder in the first degree, and on this appeal complains of the following instruction given to the jury by the Court below:
"You are not legally bound to acquit him, because you may not be entirely satisfied that the defendant, and no other person, committed the alleged offense."
The foregoing instruction was erroneous. (The People v. Kerrick, 52 Cal. 446, and cases therein referred to.)
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered.