People v. Martinez
People v. Martinez
Opinion of the Court
Defendant was informed against by the district attorney of Stanislaus County, state of California, in which he was charged “with having on or about the twentieth day of August, 1918, in the county of Stanislaus, state of California, and prior to the filing of this information, willfully, unlawfully and feloniously accomplished an act of sexual intercourse with and upon one Catherine Medina, then and there a female under the age of eighteen years, to wit, of the age of twelve years, and not then and there the wife of the said ‘Jessie’ Martinez.”
In the ease of People v. Young, 38 Cal. App. 492, [176 Pac. 696], under a similar set of circumstances, the court held that it must be assumed that the appeal has been abandoned and the judgment should be affirmed for want of prosecution. (See, also, People v. Wong Bow, 38 Cal. App. 213, [175 Pac. 802]; People v. Schiaffino, 40 Cal. App. 675, [181 Pac. 813]; and People v. Medaini, 40 Cal. App. 676, [181 Pac. 673].)
The judgment is amended by striking out the words “for the term of not more than fifty (50) years, the exact term to be determined as provided by law,” and, as so amended, the judgment and the order are affirmed.
Hart, J., and Burnett, J., concurred.
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