PEOPLE v. WILSON

Docket No. 2499.

125 Cal.App.2d 308 (1954)

270 P.2d 30

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. NORMAN WILSON, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

May 18, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton L. Baldwin, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Doris H. Maier, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


VAN DYKE, P.J.

Defendant was convicted of the crime of incest committed with his sister. Section 285 of the Penal Code provides that: "Persons being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void who ... commit fornication or adultery with each other, are punishable by imprisonment in the state prison...." Defendant appeals from the judgment and from an order denying a new trial.

Appellant urges that...

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