People v. Balmain
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, and from an order denying a new trial. Frank H. Dunne, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtKerrigan, J.
The defendant was convicted of abduction under the provisions of section 267 of the Penal Code. This appeal is from the judgment and from the order denying him a new trial.
The evidence in the case favorable to the prosecution is, very briefly, as follows:
Sometime early in the month of April, 1910, the defendant met Henrietta Nelson, a girl less than seventeen years of age, at a “nickel dance” in San Francisco. Their relations became intimate, and not more than a week later she, at his earnest solicitation, left her home, where she resided with her mother, and became a prostitute and an inmate…
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