State v. Charleston

h CARAWAY, J.

Defendants, Stanley Charleston and' Derrick Jenkins, were charged with thé armed robbery of a loan company in Monroe, Louisiana. A jury convicted both defendants as charged. Both defendants have appealed, urging that the state’s case of circumstantial evidence against them failed to exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence. Finding the evidence constitutionally insufficient to support a verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, we reverse the defendants’ convictions and sentences and enter judgments of acquittal.

Facts

On the morning of September 8, 1997, an armed robbery…