People v. Fong Chung
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, and from an order denying a new trial. J. E. Welch, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, P. J.
The defendant is charged in the indictment with the crime of rape, in having had sexual intercourse, on the twenty-sixth day of September, 1905, with Lillie Ida Davis, an unmarried female under the age of sixteen years.
After trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and judgment was thereupon entered, sentencing defendant to a term of ten years in the state prison.
The facts disclosed by this record are revolting. The party upon whom the rape is alleged to have been committed was just thirteen years of age, and had an elder sister, Eliza, who was fifteen. It seems, with the apparent…
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