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PEOPLE v. TRAPPS

Docket No. 3313.

152 Cal.App.2d 413 (1957)

313 P.2d 656

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

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

July 12, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mas Yonemura, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Marvin J. Christiansen, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

PETERS, P.J.

Defendant, Johnny Trapps, after a trial before the court without a jury, was found guilty of rape. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and from the order denying his motion for a new trial. The sole contention made is that the evidence is insufficient to support the judgment because, so it is claimed, the testimony of the two major prosecution witnesses, Geraldine Porter and Betty Joyce Lewis, is inherently improbable, and, for that reason, should...

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