People v. McCollum

WASTE, C. J.

Appellant was charged by separate counts in an information (No. 2431) with the crimes of rape and incest committed on his own sixteen year old daughter. By a separate information (No. 2432) he was charged with sex perversion practiced on the same child, a violation of. section 288a of the Penal Code. The jury returned verdicts of guilty on the charges of incest and sex perversion, and not guilty on the charge of rape. From the judg

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meats of conviction and orders denying his motions for a new trial the defendant appealed.

•The conviction on the charge of incest was affirmed

(People

v.

McCollum,

116 Cal. App. 55 [2 Pac. (2d) 432]), and the judgment on the sex perversion charge was reversed ([Cal. App.] 2 Pac. (2d) 434). No petition for a hearing in the Supreme Court was filed by the appellant and our records show that the

remittitur

in the incest ease has been transmitted to the trial court. The judgment of conviction in that cause is, therefore, in full force and effect. The District Court of Appeal in its decision on the sex perversion charge (violation of section 288a of the Penal Code), held, in effect, that the prosecutrix was an accomplice to that crime, and, failing to find in the record any corroboration of her testimony, reversed the judgment of conviction. On petition of the attorney-general, and because of the fact that, pending the appeal in this case, the District Court of Appeal of the Second Appellate District, Division Two, handed down a decision in

People

v.

Roy Johnson,

115 Cal. App. 704 [2 Pac. (2d) 216], in effect contrary to the holding in this case on the question of the prosecutrix being an accomplice, we transferred the ease to this court for further consideration.

We are of the view that the decision in this case is correct, and that the opinion in