Lyons v. City of Petersburg

How courts have described this case

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• inferring that defendant’s car was where it was at the time because he drove it there and that he was under the influence of alcohol at that time
• “Circumstantial evidence is sufficient to convict if it excludes every reasonable hypothesis of innocence. This occurs when the trier of facts has an abiding conviction of the guilt of the accused.” (emphasis added)
• defendant found seated behind steering wheel of car but made no statement about his striking of an unoccupied parked car in the rear and knocking it 25 to 30 feet
• \Circumstantial evidence is sufficient to convict if it excludes every reasonable hypothesis of innocence. This occurs when the trier of facts has an abiding conviction of the guilt of the accused.\ (emphasis added)
• drunk found behind steering wheel of wrecked vehicle which had collided with another
• drunk defendant found seated behind steering wheel of car but made no statement about his striking of an unoccupied parked car in the rear and pushing it 25 to 30 feet

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).