Case ID: mich-app_28/html/0510-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. ALONZO SANDERS
    1. Criminal Law — Res Gestae Witnesses — Accomplice—Failure to Indorse.
    The rule requiring the people to indorse on the information and call all res gestae witnesses does not apply to accomplices.
    2. Criminal Law — Evidence—Sufficiency—Inferential Proof.
    Accused’s guilt may be proved inferentially, and Court of Appeals will not reverse trial court where the evidence, taken as a whole, including the reasonable inferences therefrom, supports the court’s finding that the defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
    References for Points in Headnotes
    
       39 Am Jur, New Trial § 38.
    41 Am Jur 2d, Indictments and Informations § 56.
    
       5 Am Jur 2d, Appeal and Error § 883.
    30 Am Jur 2d, Evidence § 1124 et seq.
    
    Appeal from Recorder’s Court of Detroit, Henry Heading, J. Submitted Division 1 November 4, 1970, at Detroit.
    (Docket No. 8446.)
    Decided December 7, 1970.
    Alonzo Francis Sanders was convicted of larceny in a building. Defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Frank, J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Gerard A. Poehl
      
      man, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
    
      Alan A. May, for defendant on appeal.
    Before: Lesinski, C. J., and J. H. Gillis and Beasley, JJ.
    
      
       Circuit judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment.
    
   Per Curiam.

Defendant appeals his nonjury conviction of larceny in a building. MCLA § 750.360 (Stat Ann 1954 Bev § 28.592).

Defendant claims error in plaintiff’s failure to indorse and produce an alleged res gestae witness, a co-defendant whose case was subsequently dismissed. The rule requiring the people to indorse on the information and call all res gestae witnesses does not apply to accomplices. People v. Virgil Brown (1969), 15 Mich App 600; People v. Chaney (1970), 21 Mich App 120; People v. Leroy Morgan (1970), 24 Mich App 660.

Defendant also alleges that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict. An accused’s guilt may be proved inferentially. People v. Moceri (1940), 294 Mich 483. We are satisfied that the evidence taken as a whole, including reasonable inferences therefrom, supports the trial court’s finding that the defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. People v. Helcher (1968), 14 Mich App 386.

Affirmed. 
      
       MCLA § 767.40 (Stat Ann 1970 Cum Supp § 28.980).