Case ID: cal-app_14/html/0277-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "KERRIGAN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[Crim. No. 275.
    First Appellate District.
    September 21, 1910.]
    THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. VINCENT TESTA, Appellant.
    Criminal Law—Rape—Support op Verdict.—It is held that the verdict finding the defendant guilty of the crime of rape is supported by the evidence; that the story told by the prosecutrix upon the witness-stand as to the circumstances of the offense is not at all improbable; and that it was corroborated in several essential respects by other witnesses, and particularly by a letter written by the defendant while in jail to the parents of the prosecutrix.
    APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. George H. Cabaniss, Judge.
    The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
    Louis Ferrari, for Appellant.
    U. S. Webb, Attorney General, and J. Charles Jones, for Respondent.
   KERRIGAN, J.

Defendant was informed against for the crime of rape. He was tried and convicted of the offense charged in the information. Thereafter he made a motion for a new trial and in arrest of judgment, which motions were denied. Defendant prosecutes this appeal from the judgment.

The sole contention in the ease is that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict of the jury. We cannot agree with this contention. The nature of the evidence is such that we will refrain from stating it in detail. It is sufficient to say that the story told by the prosecutrix on the witness-stand as to the circumstances of the commission of the offense is not at all improbable. Moreover, it was corroborated in several essential respects by other witnesses, and particularly by a letter written by the defendant while in jail to the parents of the prosecutrix.

The judgment is affirmed.

Hall, J., and Cooper, P. J., concurred.