Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Turlock, California, USA · 1951

United States (1951): Turlock pastor's guilty plea to statutory rape of a congregant affirmed

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor of a Turlock church

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The opinion itself places the victim in his congregation at the time of the offence.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

1951-01-01 · guilty plea; judgment affirmed

California Court of Appeal, Third District (People v. Tidwell, 108 Cal. App. 2d 60). Simpson L. Tidwell pleaded guilty to statutory rape of a seventeen-year-old who, in the opinion's words, 'was, at the time of the commission of the offense, a member of the church of which defendant was then pastor in Turlock'; the Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment on his appeal from denial of plea withdrawal.

Primary record

official court judgment appellate judgment People v. Tidwell, 108 Cal. App. 2d 60, 238 P.2d 21 (Cal. Ct. App. 1951).: The appellate opinion.

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