Case ID: mich-app_10/html/0315-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      T. Gr. Kavanagh, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. SHAW.
    1. Appeal and Error — Criminal Law — Sufficiency op Evidence.
    Conviction of a erime will not be reversed by an appellate court if there is evidence in the reeord which, if believed, will support a verdict of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
    2. Criminal Law — Sufficiency of Evidence — Carnal Knowledge of Eem:ale Patient.
    Conviction of carnally knowing a female patient of a State institution based partially upon contradictory and conflicting testimony of complaining witness is affirmed, where a review of the reeord establishes that there was sufficient evidence, if believed, to support a verdict of guilty beyond a reasonable doiibt (CL 1948, § 750.341).
    References for Points in Heádnotes
    [1] 5 Am Jur 2d, Appeal and Error § 948.
    [2] 5 Am Jur 2d, Appeal and Error §§ 786, 883.
    Appeal from Lenawee; Martin (Rex B.), J.
    Submitted Division 2 May 2, 1967, at Lansing.
    (Docket No. 2,481.)
    Decided March 27, 1968.
    Damon Shaw was convicted of carnal knowledge of a female committed to a State institution.
    Affirmed.
    
      Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Harvey A. Koselka, Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
    
      Russell & Bird, for defendant.
   T. Gr. Kavanagh, P. J.

This is an appeal from a conviction of a violation of CL 1948, § 750.341 (Stat Arm 1954 Rev § 28.573) which makes it a crime to carnally know a female patient in a State or county institution.

The only error asserted on appeal is that the verdict is against the great weight of the evidence.

Appellant argues that the complaining witness testified in a contradictory and conflicting manner and that such testimony should not serve to support a conviction.

The rule on review is that if there is evidence in the record which, if believed, will support a verdict of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt we will not reverse. People v. Williams (1962), 368 Mich 494, 501.

We have examined the record carefully, and despite some questionable cross-examination by the prosecutor of his main witness, we have discovered no reversible error. We are satisfied that the defendant had a fair trial.

Affirmed.

Levin and Sullivan, JJ., concurred.