People v. Muir

A jury convicted defendant of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury. (Pen. Code, § 245.)

On appeal the judgment is mainly attacked on the basis that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict. The facts are confusing and the evidence that it was defendant who committed a brutal attack on the victim, Mrs. Anderson, is admittedly circumstantial, but after a thorough review of the record we cannot say that the jury unreasonably rejected “all that undermines confidence” in the prosecution’s case. (People v. Hall, 62 Cal.2d 104, 112 [41 Cal.Rptr. 284, 396 P.2d…