Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault, graphic, violent offense.

Defendant Anderson was found guilty of the first-degree murder of ten-year old Victoria Hammond. An automatic appeal was taken to the California Supreme Court. Anderson contended that the evidence did support his conviction for first-degree murder. Anderson was a San Jose cab driver and had been living for roughly eight months with a Mrs. Hammond and her three children, Cynthia, aged 17, Kenneth, aged 13, and the victim, Victoria, aged 10. Mrs. Hammond left for work at 7:30 a.m. on December 7, 1962, leaving Victoria at home with the defendant. Anderson had not worked for the past two days and had been drinking heavily. The victim's 13-year-old brother Kenneth testified that he arrived home from school at 3:30 p.m. on December 7 and found the front door locked. This was not unusual and he went around to the back of the house and down to the basement. He remained the basement for a period of time working with his microscope.