People v. Torres

Defendant was informed against and, after trial, convicted by a jury of his peers of the crime of child-stealing, under section 278 of the Penal Code—the child being a female of the age of thirteen years—and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison. A brief statement of the facts follows:

The child lived with her parents near Garden Grove, in Orange County, on and for some time prior to February 8, 1920, at which time, it is claimed, “she went away with the defendant. ’ ’ From the record it appears that at about 10 o’clock at night defendant and the minor went to a “little house,’’…