Courtney v. Com.

How courts have described this case

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• affirming the defendant’s conviction where he told the victim during the robbery that he had a gun but he had only a toy firearm in his possession when he was apprehended, because the fact finder clearly resolved against the defendant the issue of whether he used a real gun in the robbery
• evidence was sufficient to support the defendant’s conviction where he committed a robbery by holding an object underneath his shirt the entire time while stating to the victim, “I have a gun.”
• “As we have said on many occasions, . . . the reviewing court is not permitted to substitute its own judgment, even if its opinion might differ from the conclusions reached by the finder of fact at the trial.’”
• “As we have said on many occasions, ‘[I]f there is evidence to support the convictions, the reviewing court is not permitted to substitute its own judgment, even if its opinion might differ from the conclusions reached by the finder of fact at the trial.’” (alteration in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).