Gray

People v. Gray

Good Law
1923 Cal. App. LEXIS 227·63 Cal. App. 59·218 P. 49
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJuly 18, 1923Crim. No. 1114.California1,030 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Langdon, J.

is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of conviction of violation of section 21 of the juvenile court law (Stats. 1915, p. 1246). Pie was charged with having procured, permitted, and allowed a girl under the age of twenty-one years to visit and remain in a designated house in the city of Oakland, State of California, for the purpose of prostitution.

Three assignments of error are made. The one with relation to the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict and judgment need not be discussed by us further than to say that the evidence was conflicting, but that upon the testimony of the prosecutrix and the police officers, the jury was entitled to bring in a verdict of guilty. Our function ceases with relation to a review of the evidence upon encountering in the record testimony in harmony with the judgment.

Objection is made to the rulings of the trial court by which was excluded, upon the objection of the plaintiff, certain testimony of an employee of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and of a furniture dealer. By the testimony of these witnesses it was sought to be shown by the defense that the gas and electric bills incurred on the premises in question were…

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