PEOPLE v. RUSSO

Docket No. 6334.

168 Cal.App.2d 747 (1959)

336 P.2d 628

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. NICK CARMEN RUSSO, Appellant.

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

March 18, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gladys Towles Root, Eugene V. McPherson and Robert Barnett for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow and Philip C. Griffin, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


ASHBURN, J.

Appellant was tried contemporaneously upon one charge of burglary (Pen. Code, § 459) and two charges of statutory rape (Pen. Code, § 261, subd. 1). Convicted on all counts and committed to the Youth Authority for the terms prescribed by law defendant appeals from the judgments. Counsel attack sufficiency of the evidence in each instance.

The case was presented somewhat casually on both sides. Evidence supporting the convictions is weak...

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