People v. Hewitt

The appellant was charged by information filed by the district attorney of Los Angeles County with statutory rape, alleged to have been committed upon a female person of the age of fifteen years, on or about December 1, 1928, December 15, 1928, and March 30, 1929. Having been convicted upon all three counts, a motion for a new trial was presented, which was denied, and the defendant appeals from the judgments and from the order last mentioned.

The principal ground assigned for reversal arises from conflicting evidence which appellant attempts to construe as rendering the evidence offered by…