Bellamy

The defendant was charged by an indictment of the grand jury of the county of Sacramento with the crime of pimping, as defined by the Statutes of 1911, page 10, which reads as follows:

The defendant was convicted by the jury; thereupon he moved for a new trial, which was denied, and he was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison. He prosecutes this appeal from the judgment and the order denying him a new trial.

The appellant in his brief refers at length to the evidence in the case, but a careful examination of the record discloses that the evidence against the defendant is overwhelming. The appellant in his brief states: “The evidence given at the trial is conflicting. If the prosecutrix can be believed, there can be no question but that during the month of May, 1925, she was a prostitute, practiced prostitution and received money therefor, which money she gave to the defendant, Bellamy, and upon which he subsisted during that month.” The counsel for de fendant thereupon devotes many pages of his brief to a discussion of the testimony and states in effect that it is so improbable, involved, contradictory, and confused that it cannot be believed. However, it is fundamental…