State v. Sayer
State v. Sayer
Opinion of the Court
— In this case it is insisted by counsel for the appellant that there is absolutely no evidence whatever establishing the guilt of the appellant, and that the jury had before them no evidence upon which to rest a verdict. At the oral argument, the assistant attorney general stated that he had been unable to find any evidence in the record which justified a verdict and judgment of conviction. The attorney general’s office has furnished us with a digest of all the evidence in the ease, and cited us to everything that could be considered as a circumstance or suspicion against
The judgment is reversed and the defendant will be discharged.
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- STATE v. JOHN SAYER
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- Insufficiency of Evidence. 1. Transcript of the 'evidence examined in this case, and held, that there is no evidence upon which to rest a verdict and judgment of conviction.