Case Name: PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WILLIAM CLARKE, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1881-02-24
Citations: 2 Cal. Unrep. 110
Docket Number: No. 10,595
Parties: PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WILLIAM CLARKE, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Unreported Cases
Volume: 2
Pages: 110–111

Head Matter:
PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WILLIAM CLARKE, Appellant.
No. 10,595;
February 24, 1881.
Criminal Law.—An Appeal from the Overruling of a Demurrer to an information is not entitled to be considered, in the absence of a record showing what the order was. Here, nevertheless, the court examined the information and sustained it as good in substance.
APPEAL from Superior Court, Monterey County.
Charles W. Quilty for appellant; A. L. Hart, attorney general, for respondent.

Opinion:
By the COURT.
This appeal is taken from the judgment alone. The ground of the appeal is the alleged insufficiency of the information. This objection is permitted by the statute to be taken advantage of in three ways, and three ways only— that is to say .• 1. By demurrer; 2. At the trial, under the plea of not guilty; and 3. After trial, in arrest of judgment: Penal Code, secs. 1004, 1012. In the present case the defendant did not attempt to avail himself of but one of the modes allowed by the statute. He filed a demurrer, but what actiofi was taken in the court below respecting it the record does not inform us. There is no order overruling it, and for aught that appears it may have been withdrawn by the defendant himself. We have, nevertheless, examined the information, and find it good in substance.
Judgment affirmed.