Court Opinion

ID: 9791098
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:05:20.74952+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:34.022079
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SCHAUER,, J.,* Dissenting.
I concur generally in the law as stated by Mr. Justice Burke in his concurring opinion, but after review of the entire cause, including the evidence, am not affirmatively persuaded that a result more favorable to the defendant would have been reached in the absence of the declared error.
The encompassing net of interwoven circumstances established by the prosecution is to me inherently more convincing than the direct uncorroborated statement of any single witness could ordinarily be. The confession here is significant principally because it is consistent with the only conclusion reasonably supported by the proof independently made. Assuming that such additional—in effect, cumulative—proof was erroneously received does not persuade me to the conclusion that in the absence of the error a result more favorable to the defendant would have been probable.
I would affirm the judgment in its entirety.
McComb, J., concurred.
Respondent’s petition for a rehearing was denied April 21, 1965, and the opinion was modified to read as printed above. Mosk, J., did not participate therein. McComb, J., and Schauer, J.,* were of the opimon that the petition should be granted.

Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court sitting under assignment by the Chairman of the Judicial Council.