People v. Gump

The defendant was tried before a jury upon an information in three separate counts charging incest, rape, and a violation of the juvenile court law. He was found guilty on all three counts and sentenced to Folsom prison on the first and second and given a suspended county jail sentence on the third. He appeals from the judgment and from the order denying a new trial.

His first ground is the inherent improbability of the evidence of the prosecutrix. She had been living for many years with her father, her brother and her grandmother at' the latter’s home. She testified to an act of intercourse…