Jones

People v. Jones

Good Law
15 Cal. Rptr. 689·195 Cal. App. 2d 449·1961 Cal. App. LEXIS 1473
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaSeptember 8, 1961Crim. No. 3906California832 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Draper, J.

A jury found defendant guilty of car theft, rape, assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, and kidnapping. The same jury thereafter found him sane at the time of commission of the several offenses. He was sentenced to prison, the terms to run eon- *451 currently, and appeals from the judgment. No issue as to the sanity trial is raised on appeal.

There is evidence that defendant, purporting to he a minister of the gospel, sought to hire a secretary for his church through an employment agency. The agency referred prosecutrix to him. He interviewed her in San Francisco, told her the employment would be down the Peninsula, and arranged for her to meet him in her ear to go to the place of employment. She drove him to Redwood City and then, at his direction, went on. As they approached a dirt road, he grabbed the wheel and steered the car into that road. Threatening her with a kitchen knife which he produced, he compelled her to drive along this road until he turned off the motor. Still threatening her with the knife, he raped her. He then took the wheel and drove on for some distance, keeping the knife in his hand. As he started to turn into another dirt road,…

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