People v. Lew

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of violating section 702 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and from the order denying appellant’s motion for a new trial.

The information in the present case charged two causes of action: 1. Rape upon a female person under the age of eighteen years (Pen. Code, §261). 2. That the defendant registered at a hotel with a sixteen-year-old female, who was not the wife of appellant, and occupied the same room with her, thereby contributing to the female becoming and remaining a person who is leading, or from any cause is in danger of leading, an…