People v. Spillard

Appellant was convicted of violating section 288 of the Penal Code.

The motion for a new trial was denied, and appellant was committed to the state prison for the term prescribed by law. From the order denying the motion for a new trial and from the judgment of conviction defendant prosecuted this appeal.

Briefly the facts are that on a Saturday afternoon, either June 15, or June 22, 1935, the complaining witness, a little girl of about ten years of age, with four companions, two girls and two boys, ranging in ages from seven to thirteen years, went to a moving picture theater in Sacramento.…