Case Name: THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JAMES P. WORKMAN, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1936-08-05
Citations: 7 Cal. 2d 176
Docket Number: Crim. No. 4015
Parties: THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JAMES P. WORKMAN, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 176–177

Head Matter:
[Crim. No. 4015.
In Bank.
August 5, 1936.]
THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JAMES P. WORKMAN, Appellant.
George Olshausen and George Anderson for Appellant.
U. S. Webb, Attorney-General, and Ralph IT. Cowing, Deputy Attorney-General, for Respondent.

Opinion:
THE COURT.
A hearing was granted in this court after decision by the District Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, in order to consider defendant's contention that reversible error had been committed by the trial court in passing upon the competency of jurors. It has subsequently appeared, and it is conceded by respondent, that after a prior trial, defendant's motion for a new trial was granted, and notice of appeal from the order granting such new trial was given by respondent. Hence, an appeal was pending at the time the present trial took place, and the court below was without jurisdiction to try the defendant. The judgment must therefore be reversed on this ground, and it is unnecessary to determine the other issues raised by the defendant.
The judgment is reversed.