494 So. 2d 925 - Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
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cited by 1 later decisions
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June 1995
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Relies on Burks v. United States · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · Stambaugh v. Hayes · Parker v. State
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“" Williams v. State , 468 So.2d 99 (Ala. 1985) is dispositive of this case. In Williams , the Alabama Supreme Court stated that circumstantial evidence will support a finding of guilt if ' "the evidence is so strong and cogent as to show defendant's guilt to a moral certainty," Tanner v. State , 291 Ala. 70 , 277 So.2d 885 (1973); Gantt v. State , 356 So.2d 707 (Ala.Crim.App.), cert. denied, 356 So.2d 712 (Ala. 1978), and the circumstances producing the moral certainty of the accused's guilt "are incapable of explanation on any reasonable hypothesis," Jarrell v. State , 255 Ala. 128 , 50 So.2d 774 (1949); Sumeral v. State , 39 Ala. App. 638 , 106 So.2d 270 (1958).' Williams , supra [468 So.2d] at 101."”
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