State v. Muhammad

Defendant frontally attacks his conviction as being founded on a jury verdict supported by insufficient evidence.

“. . . On an appeal in a criminal case the test of the sufficiency of the evidence for a conviction is ‘whether the evidence adduced, believed and rationally considered by the jury, was sufficient to prove the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.’ ” 1

*15The facts as detailed in the testimony of the complaining witness, a twenty-two-year-old single woman, are as follows:

On the evening of Sunday, October 8, 1967, she had gone alone to the Attic, a tavern and nightclub in…