Opinion ID: 1315060
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Sixth : The evidence was insufficient to support the judgment.

Text: This proposition is untenable. [11] After conviction all intendments are in favor of the judgment and a verdict will not be set aside upon the ground of insufficiency of the evidence unless the record clearly shows that upon no hypothesis is there substantial evidence to support it. ( People v. Lindley, 26 Cal.2d 780 at 791 [7] [161 P.2d 227].) [12] Applying this rule to the facts in the instant case the record discloses the corpus delicti was amply proven by the finding of decedent's body which had been strangled and stabbed and the testimony of the doctor that decedent's death was due to the stab wounds and strangulation. Therefore, the confession of defendant was admissible to show he had been lying in wait for the decedent and had stabbed and choked her, with the result that she died.