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• Title: People v. Byrd
• Author : First Appellate District, Division Two District Court Of Appeal Of California
• Release Date : January 26, 1948
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 55 KB

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The defendant was convicted by a jury of the crime of incest, and he presents this appeal from the judgment in pro. per. The complaining witness was his 15-year-old daughter. The sordid details of the daughters testimony need not be enlarged upon but, as so often happens in such cases, the testimony of the daughter concerning the alleged offense was not substantially corroborated by any other witness and was flatly contradicted by the appellant. The daughter had fallen in love with a Filipino whom she desired to marry and the appellant had had the Filipino arrested charging him with the possession of a pistol in violation of the law forbidding the possession of firearms by aliens. The daughters accusation against the father followed closely on the arrest of her lover and it was appellants theory on the trial that his daughters accusation against him was motivated by her resentment at his action in having her lover arrested. The daughter recanted her accusation against appellant in two letters written to the authorities and then again changed her story and testified against him on the trial. That such accusations are not infrequently fabricated by minors the experience of any trial judge will attest.

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