People v. Dávila Díaz
People v. Dávila Díaz
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of tbs court.
Marcelino Dávila Díaz was twice convicted — first in a municipal court and later, after a trial de novo, in a district court — of abandonment and neglect of a child.
The second assignment is that the district court erred in overruling a motion for acquittal made on the ground of insufficient evidence at the close of the testimony for the prosecution. When the prosecuting witness finished her testimony the district judge, apparently satisfied, asked the district attorney if the rest of his evidence was cumulative. Pie said that it was, and rested. Defendant then moved for an acquittal. The testimony of the prosecuting witness, if true, sufficed to establish a prima facie case.
The third assignment is that the district court erred in weighing the evidence as a whole, and in finding defendant guilty. We find no such manifest error as to require a reversal.
The judgment appealed from must be affirmed.
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