People v. Wall

Opinion

ELKINGTON, J.

Defendant Wall was convicted upon a jury’s verdicts of rape by force and violence in violation of Penal Code section 261, subdivision 2, and of false imprisonment (Pen. Code, § 236), a lesser offense necessarily included in the crime of kidnaping (Pen. Code, § 207) charged in the information. He appeals from a judgment under which he was sentenced to state prison.

We state Wall’s appellate contentions as they are phrased by him.

I. Contention: “The court improperly excluded testimony of Dennis Colvin.”

The proof of defendant Wall’s guilt depended entirely upon the credibility…