Goldsmith

People v. Goldsmith

Good Law
130 Cal. App. 443·1933 Cal. App. LEXIS 891·20 P.2d 107
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMarch 17, 1933Docket No. 2306.California1,116 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Houser, J.

From a judgment of conviction on each of two counts contained in an information wherein he was charged with the commission of the crime of rape, as well as from an order by which his motion for a new trial was denied, defendant has appealed to this court.

Although appellant, has divided his point into many different parts and by each of them has urged a reason couched in language different from either or all the others, the sum and substance of the several grounds thus presented for reversal of the judgment and the order herein is that the evidence is insufficient to support the judgment.

An examination of the record discloses the fact that a period of two days only intervened between the alleged attack made by defendant on his first victim and the similar attack made by him on the second. As he did not see fit to be sworn as a witness in his own behalf, the testimony of the prosecuting witness in each of the counts of the information must furnish the sole source relating to the immediate facts. In- the main, it appears that the method of attack employed by him in the commission of the offense of which he was charged was identical one case with the other. In short, at about 8…

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