Legal Opinion

People v. Wilt

California Court of Appeal

Decided July 15, 1940No. Crim. 534PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMarks, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment and from an order denying defendant’s motion for new trial.

Defendant was charged with the crime of robbery and with having suffered a prior conviction. He admitted the prior conviction and entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of robbery.

Defendant urges that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdict and judgment in three particulars: (1) That the corpus delicti was not sufficiently proven and, therefore, three confessions made by him should not have been admitted in evidence nor considered against him; (2) that independent of those confessions…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. People v. WardCalifornia Supreme Court · 1901
  2. People v. BollingerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1925
  3. People v. CowanCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1940
  4. People v. CasanovaCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1921

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. People v. WadeCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1945
  2. People v. LearyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1946
  3. People v. HassenCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1956
  4. People v. FierroCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1943
  5. People v. BattleCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1961

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