Abdullah

Ahmed Abdullah was convicted by the court sitting 'without a jury of two charges of rape upon a minor female person. Thereafter his motion for a new trial was denied and judgment was pronounced. He appeals from the judgment and from the order denying said motion.

■The girl’s father, a widower, worked for appellant and lived with his daughter, a younger son and a woman house keeper in a house on appellant's premises, quite close to the latter’s residence. Appellant operated a health farm or conditioning establishment on the outskirts of Los Angeles and lived on the place with his wife. At the trial an array of men and women of known probity and standing testified to their long acquaintance with appellant and to his good reputation. At the time of trial the complaining witness was enceinte. She testified with great diffidence, and a perusal of the transcript reveals the fact that her story was produced largely from leading questions to which answers in the negative or the affirmative were given. Many times her answers were simply, “I don’t remember.” The story briefly was that appellant came to the house in which the girl lived and, standing by the kitchen door, told her that he…