Wyatt v. State

Ernest Wyatt, Jr., the appellant, was convicted of delivery of a controlled substance (count I), resisting arrest without violence (count II), and tampering with evidence (count III). Although Wyatt raises a number of issues on appeal, we write to address only one — the alleged error in the trial court’s denial of his motion for judgment of acquittal on the delivery of cocaine charge. Because the jury could not reasonably have concluded that the evidence excluded Wyatt’s hypothesis of innocence, we must reverse.

Briefly stated, Wyatt’s convictions stem from an undercover drug buy in Indian…