Daughtie v. State

How courts have described this case

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• noting that in combination with other evidence, “a statement by a defendant, if disbelieved by the jury[,] may be considered as substantive evidence of the defendant’s guilt”
• explaining that “a statement by a defendant, if disbelieved by the jury may be considered as substantive evidence of the defendant’s guilt ... at least where some corroborative evidence exists for the charged offense”
• evidence that a gun was stolen by the owner’s friend and found behind a club by the defendant was insufficient to support conviction for theft by receiving stolen property
• because evidence shed no light on defendant’s knowledge of the handgun’s provenance, evidence was insufficient to enable a rational jury to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of theft by receiving stolen property
• “If the State were correct that jury disbelief of a testifying defendant could sustain a conviction without anything more, it would render appellate review of the sufficiency of the evidence meaningless in any case in which the defendant exercised his right to testify.”
• counsel is not obligated to object to admissible evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).