Opinion ID: 1161125
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Heading: Booker's Claim Regarding the Charge of Great Bodily Injury

Text: (4) Booker asserts that at the preliminary hearing the magistrate found there was no great bodily injury and that it was therefore error for the prosecution to include in the information a charge of such injury and for the court to submit the issue of such injury to the jury. He relies upon Jones v. Superior Court, 4 Cal.3d 660 [94 Cal. Rptr. 289, 483 P.2d 1241], and further claims that, even though the jury's finding of great bodily injury was stricken by the court, he was prejudiced by the errors since, assertedly, it may be inferred that the jury determined that because of the charge of such injury he was a dangerous man. The preliminary hearing transcript is not part of the record on appeal. It is unnecessary to augment the record to include that transcript because even if it be assumed to have been error to include the great bodily injury charge in the information and to submit that issue to the jury, the errors were not prejudicial. (Cal. Const., art. VI, § 13; People v. Watson, 46 Cal.2d 818, 836-837 [299 P.2d 243].) The jury was instructed that, in determining whether a defendant is guilty or not, the jury must be governed solely by the evidence. In our view, it is highly improbable that the jury's verdict concerning guilt was affected by the great bodily injury charge.