People v. Lopez

Defendant was charged with committing the offense designated in section 288 of the Penal Code and, upon conviction thereof, appealed from the judgment of imprisonment which followed.

The prosecuting witness was a female child, six years of age and the stepdaughter of defendant, with whom and her mother she was accustomed to occupy the same bed. The act with which defendant is charged is alleged to have occurred about a month prior to the filing, of the information. The verdict is based largely upon the child’s testimony, given through an interpreter, to the reception of which evidence, on…