MIRIAM COWART, APPELLANT,

v.

M. C. LEWIS, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Jones v. State, 466 So. 2d 301 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985)
  …les to theft of purse from clerk in store; delinquency adjudication reversed); Gayle v. State, 258 So. 2d 455 (Fla. 1st DCA 1972) (state’s evidence deemed insufficient to link defendant to a burglary; burglary conviction reversed); Terzado v. State, 232 So. 2d 232 (Fla. 4th DCA 1970) (state’s evidence deemed insufficient to link defendant to a criminal homicide; second degree murder conviction reversed); Wilkerson v. State, 232 So. 2d 217 (Fla. 2d DCA 1970) (state’s evidence, including fingerprint evidence, d…
• Green v. State, 408 So. 2d 1086 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982)
  …create a strong probability of and be consistent with, guilt. They must be inconsistent with innocence. Hall v. State, 90 Fla. 719, 107 So. 246 (1925). Circumstantial evidence must eliminate all reasonable hypothesis of innocence. Terzado v. State, 232 So. 2d 232 (Fla. 4th DCA 1970). In the present case, the appellant was identified by Marie Parillo as being the only other person in the parking lot other than the decedent, Gregory Woods. When Parillo was assaulted, she screamed and ran into the motel and ac…
• Owen v. State, 432 So. 2d 579 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983)
  …rrison v. State, 104 So. 2d 391 (Fla. 1st DCA 1958). It is not sufficient that the facts create a strong probability of, and be consistent with, guilt. They must also eliminate all reasonable hypotheses of innocence. Hall v. State; Terzado v. State, 232 So. 2d 232 (Fla. 4th DCA 1970). Evidence that a suspect is present at the scene of a crime and flees after it has been committed is insufficient to exclude a reasonable hypothesis of innocence. Chaudoin v. State, 362 So. 2d 398 (Fla. 2d DCA 1978); J.H. v. Stat…

Authorities Cited

• Cloud v. Fallis, 110 So. 2d 669 (Fla. 1959)