Hebron v. State

ROBERT M. BELL, Judge.

At issue in this case is whether the proposition that a conviction based solely on circumstantial evidence cannot stand unless the circumstances are inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis of innocence is a proper subject of jury instruction or simply a matter of evidentiary sufficiency. The Court of Special Appeals held that it is the latter. Hebron v. State, 92 Md.App. 508, 608 A.2d 1291, cert. granted, 328 Md. 462, 615 A.2d 262 (1992). We agree.

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The petitioner, Wayne Hebron, appeals his convictions, entered in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, for breaking…