We affirm the judgment as modified. Defendant contends, first, that he was not proved guilty because the State's occurrence witnesses, the victim, and the victim's girlfriend, were unworthy of belief. Defendant observes that, before the stabbing, the victim had been drinking beer for several hours. According to defendant, the victim's girlfriend had also been drinking the day of the stabbing. Defendant asserts that the witnesses' drinking habits and alcohol consumption on the day of the offense make their testimony inherently untrustworthy.
Defendant notes other infirmities in the testimony.
Also, the victim and his girlfriend had a history of domestic violence, including several incidents where the police were called and the victim or his girlfriend soon dropped the charges. They admitted that, shortly before the stabbing, they had an argument of some sort. Defendant's posttrial motion introduced proof that, a week after the jury convicted defendant, the victim pleaded guilty to the aggravated battery of his girlfriend. As he did at trial, defendant urges that the witnesses may have framed him to cover up the result of one of their recurrent quarrels. Our review is limited to asking whether all the evidence, when considered in the light most favorable to the prosecution, is sufficient to convince any rational fact finder that the elements of the offense have been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.