People v. Coleman

OGDEN, J. pro tem.

Appellant was convicted by the ver-

dict of a jury of the crime of forcible rape. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The prosecutrix, an unmarried woman of the age of 35 years, testified that she was accosted while walking alone through the Alta Plaza Park in San Francisco on her return from church services shortly before 9 o’clock on a Sunday evening. A man approached her along an otherwise deserted path, thrust his face close to hers, saying 1 ‘ Oh, I thought you were someone I know, but you’ll do.” Her outcries…