How much evidence is sufficient to convict a single witness?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Ballard, B282339 (Cal. App. 2019):
Testimony of a single witness, unless physically impossible or inherently improbable, is sufficient to support a conviction. (Evid. Code, 411; People v. Brown (2014) 59 Cal.4th 86, 106.)
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