Opinion ID: 2166128
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 10

Heading: evidence was sufficient to support convictions for first degree sexual assault and second degree assault

Text: In his second assignment of error, Thurman argues that the district court erred in concluding the evidence was sufficient to convict him of first degree sexual assault and of second degree assault. Regardless of whether the evidence is direct, circumstantial, or a combination thereof, and regardless of whether the issue is labeled as a failure to direct a verdict, insufficiency of the evidence, or failure to prove a prima facie case, the standard is the same: In reviewing a criminal conviction, an appellate court does not resolve conflicts in the evidence, pass on the credibility of witnesses, or reweigh the evidence; such matters are for the finder of fact, and a conviction will be affirmed, in the absence of prejudicial error, if the evidence admitted at trial, viewed and construed most favorably to the State, is sufficient to support the conviction. [15]