Winston v. Mississippi Employment Security Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a defendant can present an unpre-served claim of insufficiency on appeal in a noncapital case only when the evidence is “insufficient to show that a crime was committed at all”
• holding that an \argument that the evidence is totally insufficient as a matter of law to establish the commission of a crime need not be\ made in the trial court to preserve the point for appeal
• stating that fundamental error occurs “when the evidence is insufficient to show that a crime was committed at all”
• explaining that “a conviction imposed upon a crime totally unsupported by evidence constitutes fundamental error”
• stating that, under Florida law, the “argument that the evidence is totally insufficient as a matter of law to establish the commission of a crime need not be preserved”
• noting that only fundamental error “may be raised for the first time on appeal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).