People v. Rice

The defendant was convicted on each of two counts of an information charging him with violations of sections 288 and 288a of the Penal Code, respectively. The appeal is from the judgment and an order denying motion for new trial. The victim of the felonious acts of the defendant was a boy eight years of age. It would serve no useful purpose to recite the testimony, which is sharply conflicting on several matters, and the complaining witness is contradicted by a number of witnesses for the defendant, but believing and accepting the boy’s story as true, which the jury evidently did, a complete…