Anastasion

People v. Anastasion

Good Law
1926 Cal. App. LEXIS 157·79 Cal. App. 268·249 P. 209
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaSeptember 7, 1926Docket No. 905.California350 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Plummer, J.

The defendant was tried and convicted upon an information containing two counts, one count charging the defendant with the crime of rape committed upon a female of the age of ten years, and a second count charging the defendant with the crime of lewd and lascivious conduct committed with the same female, all in the county of Sacramento, state of California, and charged to have been committed in the month of August, 1925.

The jury fixed the place of imprisonment in the state prison. From the judgment of conviction and the order of the trial court denying defendant’s motion for a new trial this appeal is taken.

The record shows that this cause was regularly set for hearing and notice given. No appearance, however, was made on the part of the defendant and appellant and no brief has been filed by or on behalf of the appellant. We have, however, examined the record and find that the testimony of the female and the testimony of two physicians called on the part of the People amply sufficient to support the judgment of conviction upon both counts. The female was found to be of the age of eleven years, and under the ruling in the cases of People v. Mayes, 66 Cal. 597 [ 56 Am. Rep. 126…

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