California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Ernest, B232792 (Cal. App. 2012):
"'"An appellate court must accept logical inferences that the [finder of fact] might have drawn from the circumstantial evidence." [Citation.] "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 evidence to support the verdict of the [finder of fact]."' [Citation.]" (People v. Hamlin (2009) 170 Cal.App.4th 1412, 1426.) "It is not enough for defendant to simply say 'there was no evidence'; instead, 'he must affirmatively demonstrate that the evidence is insufficient' on the point in dispute. [Citation.] . . . The People do not bear the burden of showing the conviction is supported by substantial evidence; instead, because 'we must begin with the presumption that the evidence . . . was sufficient,' it is defendant, as the appellant, who 'bears the burden of convincing us otherwise.' [Citation.]" (Id. at p. 1430.)
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