People v. Coronado

The defendant John Monteiro has appealed, under section 1237 of the Penal Code, from an order denying his motion for new trial. He was jointly charged with Richard Coronado, in the fourth count of an information, and convicted by a jury, of the crime of pimping, committed contrary to the provisions of the statutes of 1911, page 10, as amended in 1921, at page 96. (1 Deering’s Gen. Laws, Act 1907, p. 856, Appendix to Penal Code, pt. 3, p. 750.) The charge of pimping consisted of deriving support and maintenance, in part, from earnings from prostitution of a known prostitute. A portion of said…