Court Opinion

ID: 9443861
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:32:32.296734+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:37.748137
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HUTCHESON, Chief Judge
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I concur in the opinion and in the judgment of affirmance as to appellant Norene Aeby. I dissent from it as to appellant Aubrey Aeby.
As I read the record, all of the direct, and every tendency of the circumstantial, evidence points conclusively to Norene’s guilt. Not a syllable of the direct, and not a single shred of the circumstantial, evidence points to Aubrey’s.
Where, as here, a conviction calls for an automatic twenty year sentence, courts should at least be certain that the conviction rests on evidence and not on mere conjecture. Believing that the judgment should be reversed as to appellant Aubrey Aeby for want of evidence to sustain the conviction, I respectfully dissent from its affirmance as to him.
Rehearing denied; HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, concurs in part and dissents in part.