Case Name: THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ORVILLE TAGGART, Appellant
Court: District Court of Appeal of the State of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1914-10-27
Citations: 25 Cal. App. 628
Docket Number: Crim. No. 263
Parties: THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ORVILLE TAGGART, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Appellate Reports
Volume: 25
Pages: 628–629

Head Matter:
[Crim. No. 263.
Third Appellate District.
October 27, 1914.]
THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ORVILLE TAGGART, Appellant.
Criminal Law—Rape—Insufficient Record.—Lack of Error.—On this appeal from a judgment of conviction - of the crime of rape, it is held that no error appears from the fragmentary record, which consists merely of the minute entries of the trial kept by the clerk and the judgment of conviction.
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Del Norte County. John L. Childs, Judge.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
E. M. Frost, for Appellant.
U. S. Webb, Attorney-General, and J. Charles Jones, Deputy Attorney-General, for Respondent.

Opinion:
THE COURT.
Defendant was convicted by a jury of the crime of rape upon one May Bartol, at the time under the age of consent, and was sentenced to imprisonment for the term of five years. It appears from a fragmentary record, sent up to this court, that the verdict was rendered on November 12, 1913, and, upon the motion of defendant's attorney, sentence was postponed from time to time until December 8, 1913. The record of that day reads: "Defendant and attorney in court. Defendant informs court he has no further use for an attorney. E. M. Frost, attorney, makes address to court and retires from case." Passing of sentence was postponed from time to time thereafter until February 24, 1914. It appears that on that day defendant withdrew his motion for a new trial and his plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty. Thereupon, the court passed sentence upon him.
We find in the record what purports to be a notice of appeal from the judgment of February 24, 1914, signed "E. M. Frost, attorney for defendant, and Henry L. Ford of counsel for defendant," to which is attached an affidavit of service upon the district attorney by mail and marked "Filed March 6, 1914, W. L. Nichols, Clerk."
No transcript of the phonographic report of the trial has been sent up. There is nothing before the court for review, if it be admitted that an appeal was properly taken, except the minute entries of the trial kept by the clerk and the judgment of conviction.
No error appearing, the judgment is affirmed.