no-evidence rule
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From 382 U.S. 87 - Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham · 1966Most cited · 736 citing opinions
The proposition for which that case stands is simple and clear. It has nothing to do with concepts relating to the weight or sufficiency of the evidence in any particular case. It goes, rather, to the most basic concepts of due process of law. Its application in Thompson's case turned... 'not on the sufficiency of the evidence, but on whether this conviction rests upon any evidence at all.'... it was 'a violation of due process to convict and punish a man without evidence of his guilt.