People v. Long

Defendant was convicted by verdict of a jury of two offenses of statutory rape and one of violation of section 288 of the Penal Code. He appeals from the judgments and from an order denying his motion for new trial. The prosecuting witness was his step-daughter of the age of 13 years. She testified that the first offense of rape charged was committed January 29, 1943, the offense of violation of section 288 shortly thereafter, and the second offense of rape on February 10, 1943, all of them in the home of the parties and in the absence therefrom of her mother. The mother was employed and left…