Renshaw v. Missouri State Mutual Fire & Marine Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding instruction allowing jury to infer consciousness of guilt from false exculpatory statements made by the defendant in order to influence a witness
• reaffirming the distinction between theories of defense and theories of the case
• consciousness of guilt may be evidenced by exculpatory statements later discovered to be false
• “It is reasonable to infer consciousness of guilt from a defendant’s false exculpatory statement.”
• consciousness of guilt may be evidenced by exculpatory statements later discovered to be false
• discussing sufficiency of evidence burden of proof generally

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).