PEOPLE v. WELLS

Docket No. 4800.

112 Cal.App.2d 672 (1952)

246 P.2d 1023

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. KENNETH JAMES WELLS, Appellant.

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

August 14, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gladys Towles Root and Herbert W. Grossman for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Elizabeth Miller, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


DRAPEAU, J.

Defendant pleaded guilty to violation of Penal Code, section 288, — misconduct with a 5-year-old girl. Also he admitted a prior felony conviction of burglary and grand theft, for which he served a term of imprisonment.

After taking his plea, the superior court suspended further proceedings, adjudged defendant a sexual psychopath, and committed him to a state hospital. (Welf. & Inst. Code, div. 6, pt. 1, ch. 4.)

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