People v. Thompson

Defendant, Edward M. Thompson, appeals from judgment of conviction of violation of section 288, Penal Code.

Defendant was charged, in two counts, of violations of section 288 of the Penal Code, upon the persons of two sisters, female children aged 7 years [twins]. He pleaded guilty to count I and count II was subsequently ordered off calendar. At approximately the same time the plea of guilty was entered, he filed his affidavit of sexual psychopathy under the provision of section 5501 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. He was thereafter adjudged a sexual psychopath and a menace to the…