Thompson v. City of Louisville

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a conviction based upon a record wholly devoid of any relevant evidence of a crucial element of the offense charged is constitutionally infirm
• holding that a conviction based upon a record wholly devoid of any relevant evidence of a crucial element of the offense charged is constitutionally infirm
• holding that “it [is] a violation of due process to convict and punish a man without evidence of his guilt”
• stating that the due process question “turns not on the sufficiency of the evidence, but on whether this conviction rests upon any evidence at all”
• stating that “it [is] a violation of due process to convict and punish a man without evidence of his guilt”
• finding that the defendant's conviction violated due process since no evidence supported his conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).