People v. Lombardi

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting appellant of a violation of section 459 of the Penal Code involving burglary of a motor vehicle. Appellant assigns only two errors:' (1) that the evidence was insufficient to establish the corpus delicti and therefore that evidence of appellant’s extrajudicial admissions was improperly admitted; and (2) that the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury fully as to its duties.

The first assignment is patently without merit. The corpus delicti is established when it has been proven that the crime charged was .committed; and proof that the…