People v. Ernst

Appellant was convicted of violating section 288 of the Penal Code. * After his motions for a new trial and arrest of judgment had been denied, proceedings were suspended and he was placed on probation for five years on terms, one of which required that he serve six months in the county jail. His grounds of appeal are the incompetency of the two child witnesses, the insufficiency of the evidence, errors in the court’s rulings and instructions, disqualification of the judge and lack of jurisdiction.

About noon on January 31, 1952,. appellant called at the home of Mrs. T. and told her that since…