Silks v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a sentence will not be disturbed on appeal so long as it was not based solely on impalpable or highly suspect evidence
• holding that this court will not disturb a sentence unless the record shows that the court relied on \impalpable or highly suspect evidence\ that resulted in prejudice
• holding that this court will not disturb a sentence unless the record shows that the court relied on \impalpable or highly suspect evidence\ that resulted in prejudice
• holding that this court will not interfere with the sentence imposed \[s]o long as the record does not demonstrate prejudice resulting from consideration of information or accusations founded on facts supported only by impalpable or highly suspect evidence\
• concluding that 18 “[s]o long as the record does not demonstrate prejudice resulting from consideration of 19 information or accusations founded on facts supported only by impalpable or highly 20 suspect evidence, this court will refrain from interfering with the sentence imposed.”
• explaining that,instead of moving to dismiss the 21 charges against him, the defendant “should have moved that the jury be advised to acquit by reason of insufficient evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).