PEOPLE v. GOLDEN

Docket No. Crim. 6752.

55 Cal.2d 358 (1961)

359 P.2d 448

11 Cal. Rptr. 80

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. HAROLD JOSEPH GOLDEN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 9, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Landau & Segal, Bernard I. Segal, Hertzberg, Hoffman & Geretz and Philip Deitch for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and David R. Cadwell, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


SCHAUER, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of two counts of statutory rape (Pen. Code, § 261, subd. 1) pursuant to jury verdicts which recommend punishment by imprisonment in the county jail, and from an order denying defendant's motion for new trial. He urges that the testimony of the prosecuting witness, 14 years of age at the times of the alleged offenses (April 2 and May 17, 1958), is inherently improbable and that asserted errors led to...

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