What is the test for overturning a jury's guilty verdict?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Hernandez, B253717 (Cal. App. 2014):

Where a jury's guilty verdict may rest on a legally correct theory or a legally incorrect theory, the conviction must be reversed unless the reviewing court can determine from the record that the conviction necessarily rested on the legally correct theory. (People v. Perez (2005) 35 Cal.4th 1219, 1233; People v. Morales (2013) 212 Cal.App.4th 583, 595.) However, this rule has no application when we review a verdict returned by a trial court sitting without a jury.

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