PEOPLE v. COSTA

Docket No. 1204.

141 Cal.App.2d 795 (1956)

297 P.2d 667

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOHNNY COSTA, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

May 23, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.M. Lopes for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Victor Griffith, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


GRIFFIN, J.

Defendant and appellant, aged 18 years, was charged by information, in count one, with the crime of committing statutory rape on a girl 13 years of age. In the second count he was charged with violating section 288 of the Penal Code by performing certain lewd and lascivious acts upon her body. A jury trial resulted in a verdict of not guilty on the first count and guilty on the second count. Conditional probation was granted for three years providing defendant...

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