242 P. 508 | Cal. Ct. App. | 1925
The defendant was tried and convicted on an information charging him with a violation of section
The defendant was a teacher in the public schools of Alameda County. The complaining witness was a high school student of the age of sixteen years. This boy, accompanied by a fellow-student of the same age, went to the defendant's apartment some time in the month of August, 1924. They were there entertained by the defendant, who showed them indecent and suggestive pictures and instruments used to prevent conception. The defendant explained the use of these instruments, and then urged the two boys to commit the act defined in the code section cited. One of the boys refused and went to another room where he played a piano while the defendant and the complaining witness undressed and remained together for a period of half an hour.
[1] The chief attack on the judgment is that the evidence is insufficient because the testimony of the complaining witness, he being an accomplice, was not corroborated as required by section
[2] Appellant suggests that the trial court erred in admitting in evidence the pictures which were found in appellant's possession and which he had displayed to the *231 boys just preceding the commission of the crime. These pictures were so closely connected with the preparations for the commission of the crime that they became a part of the offense itself and were properly received in evidence.
Though we have not recited the evidence at length, we have read the record with care and are satisfied that the appellant was fairly tried and convicted. He did not take the witness-stand in his own defense, but rested on the testimony of his associates as to his previous good reputation. On the evidence which was before it the jury could not have justly returned a different verdict.
Judgment and order affirmed.
Langdon, P.J., and Sturtevant, J., concurred.
