Taustine v. Thompson

According to the majority opinion, Sam Thompson complains that he has been deprived of due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution because the evidence in each of two cases was insufficient to sustain the conviction. The fine in each case was under the appealable amount. No complaint is made that the police court in which he was tried did not have jurisdiction of the offense or the person. The question is: May the sufficiency of the evidence to convict in a state court be reviewed in a federal court as a violation of due process under federal law? The answer…