Topic: the test to be applied is whether the jury might reasonably… · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 12 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Cumbo v. State.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 Cumbo v. State Anchor
alacrimapp · 1978
green “the test to be applied 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.” 9
2 Tanner v. State
ala · 1973
green “a conviction may be had on evidence which is entirely circumstantial, so long as that evidence is so strong and cogent as to show defendant's guilt to a moral certainty.” 3

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