People v. May

Opinion

SMITH, Acting P. J.

Defendant and appellant William Edward Preston May was found guilty of two counts of forcible oral copulation (Pen. Code, § 288a, subd. (c)) 1 and one count of assault with intent to commit rape. (Pen. Code, § 220.) Three prior felony convictions were also found to be true. He was sentenced to concurrent eight-year terms on the copulation convictions and a concurrent six-year term on the assault; he was also given an additional year for each of the priors, for a total prison sentence of eleven years.

We will conclude that the court’s failure to give an instruction on…