California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. S.M. (In re S.M.), B279804 (Cal. App. 2018):
On appeal, we must accept logical inferences that the finder of fact might have drawn from the circumstantial evidence. (People v. Maury (2003) 30 Cal.4th 342, 396.) "Before the judgment of the trial court can be set aside for the insufficiency of the evidence, it must clearly appear that on no hypothesis whatever is there sufficient substantial
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evidence to support the verdict of the [finder of fact]." (People v. Hicks (1982) 128 Cal.App.3d 423, 429.)
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