PEOPLE v. SHARP

Docket No. 6202.

162 Cal.App.2d 833 (1958)

328 P.2d 535

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. BURNIS JOHN SHARP, Appellant.

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

August 18, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Casey & Kerrigan and Richard Weller for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Joan D. Gross, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


ASHBURN, J.

Convicted of forcible rape defendant appeals from the judgment and an alleged order denying his motion for new trial. There is no such order in the record and that attempted appeal must be dismissed.

The appeal presents nothing more than an effort to obtain a reweighing of the evidence by this court, contrary to the governing rule laid down in People v. Newland, 15 Cal.2d 678, 681-682 [104 P.2d 778].

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