James Lafayette Bronston v. John D. Rees

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

This habeas corpus appeal presents the sole issue of whether defendant’s conviction for armed assault and malicious shooting and wounding was supported by sufficient evidence under the standard of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979), which requires that, based on the evidence, any rational trier of fact could have found all of the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. The defendant was convicted and sentenced to concurrent terms of life imprisonment and twenty-one years in 1968. He was paroled in 1983.

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