229 So. 2d 604 - Roby v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “"When circumstantial evidence is relied upon for a conviction in a criminal case, the circumstances, when taken together, must be of a conclusive nature and tendency, leading on the whole to a reasonable and moral certainty that the accused, and no one else, committed the offense. If the facts in proof are equally consistent with some other rational conclusion than that of guilt, the evidence is insufficient. If the evidence leaves it indifferent as to which of several hypotheses is true, or merely establishes some finite probability in favor of one hypothesis rather than another, such evidence cannot amount to proof, however great the probability may be. It is the actual exclusion of each other reasonable hypothesis which clothes mere circumstances with the force of proof. Circumstantial evidence which leaves nothing more than a suspicion that the accused committed the crime is not sufficient to sustain a conviction." (Italics in text).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wilkerson v. State

2. “"Well, Roby wanted to keep saying that he had shot the boy, and they wanted to keep telling him not to say that until he found out what was going on, and they say with all that shooting in there any one of them could have done it."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 246 So. 2d 566 - State v. Roby

3. “"I told Robbie Robinson I thought I had shot at him. I shot a boy in the bar."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 246 So. 2d 566 - State v. Roby