Jeffrey York, Cross-Appellant v. Arthur Tate, Cross-Appellee

In this appeal from the district court’s order granting habeas relief under 28 U.S. C. § 2254, we are called upon to consider the proper application of the constitutional standard used for reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence presented in a state court criminal prosecution resulting in a conviction. In Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979), the Supreme Court instructed federal courts sitting in habeas to determine “whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential…