PEOPLE v. COVERT

Docket No. 4135.

249 Cal.App.2d 81 (1967)

57 Cal. Rptr. 220

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DON JEAN COVERT, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

March 2, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick H. Ebey, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, and Grunsky & Pybrum for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Daniel J. Kremer and Arnold O. Overoye, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


FRIEDMAN, J.

A jury found defendant guilty of an act of incest with his daughter. He appeals from the judgment. Primary question on appeal is the propriety of evidence of similar sexual activity between the defendant and an older daughter.

The prosecution's case consisted of the testimony of the 16-year-old prosecutrix and her 19-year-old married sister. Each described parallel histories of years of sexual molestation...

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