What is the test for "insufficiency of evidence" at the Court of Appeal?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Ballard v. Augustine, 171 Cal.App.2d 206, 339 P.2d 859 (Cal. App. 1959):
'The function of and limitation upon an appellate tribunal in the determination of a claim of 'insufficiency of the evidence' is thus enunciated in Bedford v. Pacific S. W. Corp., 121 Cal.App. 162, 163, 8 P.2d 558, 559:
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