Court Opinion

ID: 3299426
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 17:16:10.867743+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:25:20.324637
License: Public Domain

I concur in the judgment. The defendant was in jeopardy as soon as he was placed on trial before a competent court and jury on an information charging grand larceny. If the jury had been discharged without reaching a verdict, and in the absence of one of the statutory grounds for discharging them (Pen. Code, secs. 1123, 1139, 1140), the defendant would have been in a position to interpose the plea of once in jeopardy as a bar to a subsequent trial. But the jury were not discharged without reaching a verdict. They found the defendant guilty of robbery. This verdict, when compared with the averments of the information, was irregular, but it cannot be regarded as an absolute nullity. The judgment entered upon it would, if not directly attacked, have constituted a valid adjudication binding upon the defendant. Its sufficiency could not have been questioned collaterally, as, for example, on habeas corpus. The defendant's successful effort to set aside that verdict and judgment by means of a motion for new trial and an appeal is a waiver of his constitutional right to object to being placed again in jeopardy. In effect, he consents to be tried anew.
Shaw, J., concurred with Sloss, J.