People v. Forbes

Opinion

DIBIASO, Acting P. J.

We hold in part that the word “stranger” in Penal Code section 1203.066 has no technical meaning peculiar to the law and therefore that the trial court did not err in refusing an instruction which purported to define the word.

Statement of the Case

On February 23, 1994, an information was filed in Stanislaus County Superior Court charging appellant Hilton Forbes 1 with commission of a lewd or lascivious act on a child under the age of 14 (Pen. Code, 2 § 288, subd. (a), count I) and penetration with a foreign object of the genital opening of a child under the age of…