People v. Louviere

J.—Appellant was convicted by a jury of the crime of rape upon his ten-year-old stepdaughter. The appeal is upon the insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict, and upon errors of law, namely, the misconduct of the district attorney in the making of certain remarks during the presentation of the evidence and the argument, the refusal of the trial court to instruct the jury to disregard the alleged prejudicial statements, the refusal to give an instruction covering lesser offenses, and the order, after the verdict of the jury, directing the filing of an amended information containing…