In Re Todd
California Court of Appeal
PROCEEDING on Habeas Corpus to secure the release of a prisoner confined in the state prison. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
On the thirteenth day of February, 1914, William A. Todd, in whose behalf a writ of habeas corpus is herein prayed for, was sentenced to a term of twenty-five years in the state prison at San Quentin upon a conviction of the crime of rape, alleged to have been committed in the county of Alameda on the twenty-fourth day of August, 1913, upon a female of the age of twelve years, not his wife.
The information charging said crime against the prisoner was founded on subdivision 1 of section 261 of the Penal Code. That section, in its entirety, reads:
“Rape is an act of sexual intercourse,…
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