People v. Putnam

Appellant, convicted of violating section 288 of the Penal Code, appeals from the judgment, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

Appellant contends at the outset that the trial court erred in denying his motion, made under section 995 of the Penal Code, to strike the information “on account of the insufficiency of the preliminary transcript.” At the preliminary hearing the complaining witness, a boy twelve years old, testified as follows: He was playing in Westlake Park in the city of Los Angeles on April 9, 1941, when appellant offered him a job distributing handbills. He…