People v. Edgmon

The appeal is from judgment following a first degree murder conviction by a jury. Two contentions are raised: (1) insufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction; (2) inadequacy of defendant’s trial counsel. We disallow both contentions.

At the outset we reiterate often stated rules:

Before a conviction will be reversed on the ground of insufficiency of the evidence it must clearly appear that upon no hypothesis whatever is there sufficient substantial evidence to support the judgment. (People v. Newland (1940) 15 Cal.2d 678, 681 [104 P.2d 778]; People v. Alonzo (1958) 158 Cal.App.2d…