People v. Currie
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Plumas County, and from an order denying a new trial. J. 0. Honour, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChipman, P. J.
Defendant was tried upon an information for the rape of a female under the age of consent, was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for the term of eighteen years. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.
The conviction rests upon the uncorroborated testimony of the prosecutrix, whose narrative of the facts is by no means conclusive but not such as to justify its entire rejection as “inherently improbable,” as it is characterized by defendant.. She testified that the crime was committed the 24th or 25th of…
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