PEOPLE v. MULLIN

Docket No. 15.

197 Cal.App.2d 479 (1961)

17 Cal. Rptr. 516

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MERVIN M. MULLIN, as Sheriff, etc., Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

November 29, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T.R. Vilas for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, and Edsel W. Haws, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


FACTS

STONE, J.

Appellant, the Sheriff of Tuolumne County, took office January 1, 1959. He had been a California Highway Patrol officer in that county for 27 years preceding his election and qualification as sheriff. An accusation was returned by the grand jury charging him with willful misconduct in office. The charge was based upon appellant's handling of an incident concerning one Donna Huff, then 15 years of age, who complained to appellant that her...

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