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PEOPLE v. STODDARD

Docket No. 4445.

227 Cal.App.2d 40 (1964)

38 Cal. Rptr. 407

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. PAUL C. STODDARD, Defendant and Appellant.

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

May 4, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kilday, Nemer & Farbstein and George J. Kilday for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Albert W. Harris, Jr., and Robert R. Granucci, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

DRAPER, P.J.

A sexual psychopath is defined as one affected with specified mental conditions "in a form predisposing to the commission of sexual offenses, and in a degree constituting him a menace to the health or safety of others" (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 5500).1 Our question is whether the threat of psychological trauma to others, without likelihood of physical injury, constitutes such a menace.

Defendant pleaded guilty...

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