PEOPLE v. CROOKS

Docket No. 11512.

250 Cal.App.2d 788 (1967)

59 Cal. Rptr. 39

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DELORES JEAN CROOKS, Defendant and Appellant.

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

May 8, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent Ten Brink, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth Miller, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


KAUS, P.J.

Defendant, a prostitute, was convicted of grand theft. The alleged victim was a client whom we shall call Norton. Trial was to the court.

The only question of substance involved in this appeal is the propriety of the admission of certain expert testimony. These are the facts: In the afternoon of January 11, 1965, Norton drove down Western Avenue, alone in his automobile. He saw defendant at a street...

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