Kissic v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The appropriate test to be applied to determine if a prima facie case has been made is ‘whether the jury might reasonably find that the evidence excluded every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt; not whether such evidence excludes every reasonable hypothesis but guilt, but whether a jury might reasonably so conclude.’ Cumbo v. State, 368 So.2d 871, 874 (Ala.Cr.App.1978), cert. denied, 368 So.2d 877 (Ala.1979). It is not a requirement that evidence exclude every possibility of innocence. Payne v. State, 424 So.2d 722 (Ala.Cr.App.1982). “When evidence is presented by the State in support of an indictment from which a jury could by fair inference find a defendant guilty, the case is properly submitted to a jury. Willis v. State, 447 So.2d 199 (Ala.Cr.App.1983). The weight of the evidence and inferences to be drawn therefrom are matters for the jury alone. Mosley v. State, 461 So.2d 34 (Ala.Cr.App.1984).””

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