JOHNSON, ETC. v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that inconsistent verdicts may stand because, while the verdicts are perhaps the result of compromise or mistake, there should be no speculation into such matters
• “ ‘[W]e reverse for inconsistency ... because we can have no confidence in a judgment convicting [the defendant] of one crime when the judge, by his acquittal of another, appears to have rejected the only evidence that would support the conviction here.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).