Marks

People v. Marks

Good Law
1914 Cal. App. LEXIS 49·24 Cal. App. 610·142 P. 98
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMay 27, 1914Crim. No. 481.California1,644 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Kerrigan, J.

The defendant was charged by information with procuring for one Camille Meining a place as an inmate of a house of prostitution, one of the offenses designated by section 1 of the act of February 8, 1911 (Stats. 1911, p. 9) as pandering. She was tried for such offense upon the theory that she aided and abetted one Samuel Grubb in its commission. The jury found her “guilty of the crime of an attempt to commit the crime of pandering.” From the judgment of imprisonment in the state prison for a period of two years she has appealed, as also from an order denying her motion for a new trial.

The points relied upon for a reversal of the judgment and order are: errors of the trial court in the admission of evidence; that the evidence is not sufficient to support the verdict, and that there can be no such thing as an attempt to commit pandering, of which the defendant was found guilty.

On the first point it is sufficient to say that the specific evidence pointed out in appellant’s brief', the admission of which is claimed to be error, was received without objection. The statement of appellant’s counsel that “objection was made to the entire line of testimony dealing with statements made…

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