Whitholt
People v. Whitholt
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Houser, J.
Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of the crime of the commission of lewd and lascivious acts as inhibited by the provisions of section 288 of the Penal Code.
In contending that the judgment should be reversed, appellant urges that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict. Without a recital of the details of the evidence, it will suffice to state that the transcript on appeal discloses that the victim of defendant’s assault testified -positively to the commission by defendant of the acts of which he was accused in the information. In addition thereto, each of two police officers gave testimony which strongly tended to corroborate the testimony given by the prosecuting witness. Appellant’s contention, therefore, cannot be sustained.
Prejudicial error is also suggested by appellant in that the court permitted the prosecution to ask leading questions of the prosecuting witness. But even though it might be conceded that the asking of such question was erroneous (which, as a matter of law, does not necessarily follow), it appears that no objection by defendant was made thereto at any time during the course of the trial. It is too late now for him to…