Commonwealth v. Stores

How courts have described this case

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• proximity to a jewelry case later found pried open and emptied insufficient to convict
• evidence of something more than mere presence at or near the scene of a crime is required to justify the conclusion that the defendant committed or participated in a crime
• in conviction for theft and conspiracy, circumstantial evidence of defendant entering store one- half hour to full hour before store clerk noticed missing jewelry insufficient to sustain conviction without evidence that other customers in store could not have stolen jewelry

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).