Acoff v. Abston

How courts have described this case

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• permitting jury to reach a conclusion in conflict with direct evidence based solely on circumstantial evidence
• articulating the “clear break” doctrine in refusing to grant retrospective effect to a judicial decision establishing a rule of criminal procedure that was both unanticipated and in conflict with old standards

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).