People v. Hayes

Opinion

ELKINGTON, J.

Defendant John Hayes was found guilty by a jury of escape from Correctional Training Facility at Soledad, a state prison, in violation of Penal Code section 4530, subdivision (b). His appeal is from the judgment under which he was again sentenced to state prison.

The verdict is supported by substantial evidence. (See People v. Mosher, 1 Cal.3d 379, 395 [82 Cal.Rptr. 379, 461 P.2d 659].) On the witness stand Hayes admitted that he was “on the break.” He testified that another convict, ostensibly driving a truck to the prison garbage dump, but actually planning an escape,…