PEOPLE v. JONES

Docket No. 3439.

221 Cal.App.2d 408 (1963)

34 Cal. Rptr. 535

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES H. JONES, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

October 21, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Abbot for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, and John Giordano, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


VAN DYKE, J.*

Appellant was charged with forcible rape, tried to a jury and convicted. He appeals from the judgment. The prosecutrix lived near where the appellant resided. About 1:30 a.m. on August 4, 1962, she was awakened by a young Negro man who, covering her mouth with one hand while he held a knife to her throat with the other, proceeded to rape her. The sole contention on appeal is...

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