People v. Cuellar

This appeal is prosecuted by defendant from a judgment of conviction for violation of section 11500 of the Health and Safety Code rendered against him after trial by the court sitting without a jury.

Since appellant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction, and also maintains that the corpus delicti was not established prior to the admission of his extrajudicial conversations with police officers, it becomes necessary to epitomize the evidence received at the trial.

In that regard the record reflects that on April 29, 1951, Ronald David Griffin, an 11-year old…