What is the test for establishing that methyl alcohol was supplied to appellant in the case of Corcoran?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Mattison, 88 Cal.Rptr. 265, 9 Cal.App.3d 732 (Cal. App. 1970):

Appellant suggests that there were inferences to be drawn from the evidence which were consistent with his innocence. This is true. Corcoran may have committed suicide; he may have died of the flu; someone else may have furnished the methyl alcohol. These inferences were rejected by the jury. They accepted instead the reasonable hypothesis that appellant had furnished the lethal liquid to the decedent for profit. This is a reasonable theory and supported by substantial evidence. The test on appeal is not whether there are inferences consistent with the appellant's innocence but whether there is substantial evidence to support the finding of guilt. (People v. Nabayan, 276 A.C.A. 448, 453, 80 Cal.Rptr. 779.) "After conviction all intendments are in favor of the judgment and a verdict will not be set aside unless the record clearly shows that upon no hypothesis whatsoever is there

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