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PEOPLE v. HURLBURT

Docket No. 3535.

166 Cal.App.2d 334 (1958)

333 P.2d 82

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. GEORGE E. HURLBURT, Appellant.

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

December 18, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Brooks, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Chief Assistant Attorney General, and John S. McInerny, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

PETERS, P.J.

[1a] In a prosecution for a violation of section 288 of the Penal Code the trial court ruled that defense counsel could neither cross-examine the complaining witness nor introduce evidence on the question as to whether the witness had, in the past, made similar charges against other men, which charges the witness had admitted were false or were proved to be false. In our opinion such rulings were erroneous, and under the facts, prejudicial...

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