Court Opinion

ID: 9559760
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:35:18.334024+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:11:38.737991
License: Public Domain

DRAPEAU, J.
I concur. After a careful review of the record I find myself forced to concur in Mr. Presiding Justice White’s opinion affirming the judgment in this case. This court, as pointed out by Justice White, is bound by the substantial evidence rule. Tried by that rule the evidence is sufficient to sustain the judgment.
But the case leaves me with the uncomfortable feeling that an innocent man may have been convicted. It seems to me that if the trial court had had the benefit of observing every witness in the case and listening to his testimony, instead of reading part of it from the transcript of the preliminary examination, society would feel better about the conviction too. But so far as its legal aspects are concerned that phase of the case has been definitely set at rest in People v. Wallin, 32 Cal.2d 803 [197 P.2d 734].