Littlejohn v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• a party waives an issue on appeal if she does not submit written argument on the issue in her appellate brief
• “[E]vidence is not sufficient to support a conviction if it engenders only a suspicion or even a probability of guilt. Conviction cannot rest upon conjecture.” (alteration in original) (quoting Hyde v. Commonwealth, 217 Va. 950, 955 (1977))
• “Convictions cannot rest upon speculation and conjecture.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).