Kennon Laird v. Larry Lack

DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

A Tennessee jury found Kennon Laird and his co-defendant, Moses Coury, guilty of the offense of assault from ambush. * After exhausting his state court rights of appeal, Mr. Laird sought and obtained the federal writ of habeas corpus that we are called upon to review in this appeal. The question presented is whether, under the federal constitutional standard enunciated in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979), the evidence adduced at Mr. Laird’s trial was sufficient to support the jury’s verdict. Finding that it was, we shall…