Munos

The defendants were convicted of the crime of taking and enticing away a girl of fifteen years of age with intent to detain and conceal the child from her father, who had the lawful charge of the child. This appeal is from the judgment and the order denying a new trial.

The girl testified that on August 29, 1926, the defendants took her and a Chinese girl out riding in Navarro’s automobile; that on that day Navarro asked her to go with the defendants and the Chinese girl to Los Angeles and “that they might go to Calexico”; that on the next day the defendants “begged me and coaxed me to go so I went”; that they left Sutter Creek about 10:30 A- H. and traveled in a roundabout way in order to avoid the officers, who were watching the main roads; that they reached Placerville about 6:30 P. H. of that day, where Hunos and the Chinese girl “went to the courthouse to get married, but it was already closed, so she couldn’t”; that they then drove to Sacramento and thence to Stockton and from there to an automobile camp near Fresno, arriving at the camp about daylight, August 31st; that they there slept in the automobile until about 5 P. M., when they drove to Bakersfield and thence to an…