People v. Hollis

Opinion

WOODS (A. M.), P. J.

—Appellant Thurston Sonrea Hollis was sentenced to 12 years in prison 'after a jury convicted him of violating Penal Code sections 245, subdivision (a)(1) (assault great bodily injury with a deadly weapon), 288a, subdivision (c) (forcible oral copulation), 261, subdivision (2) (forcible rape), and 289 (genital penetration by foreign object). He contends his conviction must be reversed because the trial court instructed the jury in the words of CALJIC No. 10.60 as follows: “It is not essential to a conviction of a charge of rape that the testimony of the witness with…