Morrison

People v. Morrison

Good Law
1963 Cal. App. LEXIS 2300·220 Cal. App. 2d 684·34 Cal. Rptr. 1
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaSeptember 25, 1963Crim. No. 1882California2,010 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Coughlin, J.

Appellant herein, George Cole Morrison, is the subject of the instant sexual psychopathy pro *686 ceeding; on March 21, 1962, pleaded guilty to a violation of section 311.2 of the Penal Code, viz., possessing obscene pictures and exhibiting them to a 13-year-old girl; was certified to the Superior Court for consideration as a probable sexual psychopath; was found to be such and ordered placed in Atascadero State Hospital for observation and diagnosis, after which, the superintendent thereof verified this finding; in due course, was committed as a sexual psychopath for placement in that hospital for an indeterminate period; upon demand, was tried by a jury which found him to be a sexual psychopath; again was committed for an indeterminate period; moved for a new trial, which was denied; and, thereupon, appealed from the judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial in the sexual psychopathy proceeding. The order aforesaid is not appealable and the attempted appeal therefrom should be dismissed. (Code Civ. Proc., § 963; People v. Olds, 140 Cal.App.2d 156, 157 [ 294 P.2d 1034 ].)

In June of 1961, the appellant, a 27-year-old man, picked up a 17-year-old female…

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