People v. Richards

The appellant in this case was charged by information with the crime of rape, alleged to have been committed by force and violence, and against the resistance, of a female not his wife, in the county of Tulare, on or about the fifth day of July, 1925. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, a motion for new trial was presented which was denied, and this is an appeal from the judgment and from the order denying such motion.

The only question here in controversy is as to whether or not the trial court committed reversible error in a statement made by it following protracted deliberation and…