Rivera v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Judge.
A jury convicted Sandra Lopez Rivera of one count each of burglary (OCGA § 16-7-1 (a)) and giving a false name to a law enforcement officer (OCGA § 16-10-25). On appeal, Rivera challenges only the sufficiency of the evidence as to her conviction for burglary, arguing the absence of any direct evidence in support thereof and that the State’s circumstantial evidence was insufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis of her possession of property taken in the burglary, save that of her guilt. Discerning no error, we affirm.
“On appeal from a criminal conviction, the evidence…
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