Supreme Court of California

Neither Penal Code section 1181, subdivision 6, nor section 1260 authorize an appellate court, upon finding that insufficient evidence supports a judgment of conviction for one greater offense, to substitute convictions for two lesser included offenses shown by the evidence at trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/26/2007
• Published 02/26/2007

Judges

• MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia L. Watkins, and William Joseph Arzbaecher III, Sacramento, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Kathleen A. McKenna, Louis M. Vasquez and Brian Alvarez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.