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State v. Hanson

Citations

  • 446 A.2d 372
  • 141 Vt. 228
  • 1982 Vt. LEXIS 506

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that standard for sufficiency of the evidence is “whether the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the State, is sufficient to convince a reasonable trier of fact that the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
  • rejecting “the notion that [wholly circumstantial evidence] must have been so cogent as to exclude every reasonable hypothesis consistent with innocence”
  • although the larceny statute is silent as to the mens rea required, this Court found larceny to require an intent to permanently deprive the owner of his property
  • larceny requires “intent to steal at the very moment the property in question is taken into possession by the defendant”
  • “Unless expressly provided by the legislature, . . . a crime is composed of an act and an intent, which concur at a point in time.”
  • larceny — intent to permanently deprive owner of property

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Judges: Barney, Billings, Hill, Underwood, Daley

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