Cooper v. State

The major question in this case is whether the Court of Appeals, whose jurisdiction in a criminal case to review upon the weight of the evidence has been invoked, is required to weigh such evidence by the same rule that the jury is required to weigh it, or is only required to find that there was some evidence tending to prove the essential facts necessary to support the verdict.

The plaintiff in error, Gilbert Cooper, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was indicted, tried, and convicted of murder in the first degree, and, upon a proceeding in error, wherein there was a specification…