Michael Eric Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “In the present case, the record discloses that the issue of threatening or placing the victim in fear of imminent bodily injury or death was hotly contested.... [T]he testimony and the inferences that a jury may make from that testimony is a question for the jury to decide under the appropriate instruction from the court. The initial police officer on the scene indicated that the offense was one of “purse snatching.” After reviewing the record, it appears there was at least more than a scintilla of evidence to support the theory that appellant was guilty of only the offense of theft.”

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