255 P. 897 | Cal. Ct. App. | 1927
Appellant was charged by information in the superior court of Los Angeles County with a violation of the Wright Act, a high-grade misdemeanor, and was tried and found guilty. This appeal is taken from an order of the superior court denying his motion for a new trial, and from the judgment of conviction.
[1] Two grounds are urged, upon which it is claimed that the judgment should be reversed. First, it is said that the municipal court of the city of Los Angeles has exclusive jurisdiction of all misdemeanors committed in the county of Los Angeles and not within any incorporated city other than Los Angeles. This question was decided adversely to appellant's contention inPeople v. Denault,
[2] The other point urged by appellant is that "severe and improper cross-examination" by the court of a defense witness tended to show that the court was biased and prejudiced against the defendant, and that the court disbelieved *604 the witness; that this bias and prejudice on the part of the court tended to prejudice the jury, all of which, it is said, constituted prejudicial error.
This examination of the witness by the court occupied about eighteen pages of appellant's brief. No attempt is made to point out what questions asked were objectionable, or in what manner any portion of this examination shows prejudice upon the part of the court, or is at all prejudicial to the rights of the defendant. It was said in People v. Boggess,
The judgment and order appealed from are affirmed.
Thompson, J., and Johnson, J., pro tem., concurred.
A petition for a rehearing of this cause was denied by the district court of appeal on May 27, 1927. *605