People v. Mersino

Defendant, aged 49 years, was charged in six counts of a grand jury indictment with performing lewd and lascivious acts upon the bodies of six different girls between June 1, 1963, and March 1, 1964. In the seventh count he was charged with a violation of section 288a, Penal Code, performed upon the body of the girl, aged 5 years, named as the victim in the fourth count of the indictment. Of the other girls, three were aged 10; one was aged 5; and one aged 7. Defendant was found not guilty as to the fourth count; guilty as to the others. It may be assumed that the jury had been instructed…