Opinion ID: 588451
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: sufficiency of the evidence

Text: 9 Songer asserts that the evidence in this case was not sufficient to support his conviction. In determining whether evidence is sufficient to support a criminal defendant's conviction, an appellate court must view the evidence and all reasonable inferences in the light most favorable to the government. United States v. Tresvant, 677 F.2d 1018 (4th Cir. 1982). In this case, there was ample evidence to support Songer's conviction. 10 The evidence showed that a black 1982 Mustang was stolen from G & S Auto Sales a month after Songer had taken it for a test drive and that a year later a black 1982 Mustang with the same identification number as the stolen car was found at Songer's mother's house. Songer's mother testified that her son drove the car and had parked it in front of her house. Songer himself voluntarily signed a statement in the presence of law enforcement officers in which he declared that he had made duplicate keys when he took the Mustang for a test drive and that he gave the keys to Ron Hacker who stole the car and then met Songer in Volga, West Virginia, where Songer took possession of the car. Songer's claim that this evidence fails to provide sufficient evidence to convict him is without merit.