PEOPLE v. JACKSON

Docket No. 6778.

177 Cal.App.2d 181 (1960)

1 Cal. Rptr. 857

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. HAROLD DEAN JACKSON, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

January 15, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gladys Towles Root, Eugene V. McPherson and Robert Barnett for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, and Elizabeth Miller, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


ASHBURN, J.

Defendant was convicted, in a nonjury trial, of violating section 288 of the Penal Code.1 The lewd and lascivious acts of which he was convicted were committed upon the body of his 8 1/2-year-old daughter.

The only question here raised is whether the trial court abused its discretion in permitting the child to testify. Relying upon People v. Bernal, 10 Cal...

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