sufficiency of evidence

sufficiency of evidence
Term refers to test prescribed by rule providing that grand jury ought to find an indictment when all the evidence taken together, if unexplained or uncontradicted, would warrant a conviction by the trier of the offense. State v. Parks, Alaska, 437 P.2d 642, 644.
Barring plain error, an appellate court may not grant a directed verdict or a judgment N.O.V. (J.N.O.V.) absent an appropriate motion in the trial court; that is to say, it may not review the "sufficiency of the evidence" and grant a final judgment in favor of a party who failed so to move; and "sufficiency" is a term of art meaning that legal standard which is applied to determine whether the case may go to the jury or whether the evidence is legally sufficient to support the jury verdict as a matter of law. Urti v. Transport Commercial Corp., C.A.La., 479 F.2d 766, 769.
See also burden of proof

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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