Case Name: THE PEOPLE v. CHARLES W. AUBREY
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1879
Citations: 53 Cal. 427
Docket Number: No. 10,360
Parties: THE PEOPLE v. CHARLES W. AUBREY.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 53
Pages: 427–428

Head Matter:
[No. 10,360.]
THE PEOPLE v. CHARLES W. AUBREY.
Misdemeanor—Appeal will not Lie.—In a criminal case, an appeal to the Supreme Court will not lie, unless the offense of which the defendant was convicted amounts to a felony.
Assault with a Deadly Weapon.—Under sec. 17 of the Penal Code, where the defendant was Indicted for an assault with a deadly weapon, with the intent to commit murder, and was convicted of an assault with a deadly weapon, and was thereupon sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail, the offense of which he was convicted was only a misdemeanor, and no appeal lies.
Appeal from the County Court of Placer County.
Defendant appealed. The facts are stated in the opinion.
B. F. Myers, for Appellant.
Attorney-General Hamilton, for Respondent, moved to dismiss the appeal, on the ground that this Court had no jurisdiction of the cause.

Opinion:
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
The defendant was indicted for an assault with a deadly weapon, with the intent to commit murder, and was convicted of an assault with a deadly weapon, and was thereupon sentenced to be confined in the County Jail for one year. From this .judgment the defendant appeals, and the Attorney-General moves to dismiss the appeal, on the ground that from such a judgment there is no appeal.
An appeal will not lie to this Court in a criminal cause, except in cases amounting to felony; and sec. 245 of the Penal Code, as amended in 1874, provides that the punishment for an assault with a deadly weapon shall be "by imprisonment in the State Prison or in a county jail not exceeding two years, or by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both." Sec. 17 of the same Code provides that " a felony is a crime which is punishable with death or by imprisonment in the State Prison. Every other crime is a misdemeanor; or, when a crime punishable by imprisonment in the State Prison is also punishable by fine or imprisonment in a county jail, in the discretion of the Court, it shall be deemed a misdemeanor for all purposes after a judgment imposing a punishment other than imprisonment in the State Prison." (Amendment of 1874.)
The offense of which the defendant was convicted was, therefore, only a misdemeanor, and no appeal lies from the judgment.
Appeal dismissed.
Mr. Justice McKinstry expressed no opinion.