Corey McAlpin v. State of Indiana

On Petition to Transfer from the Indiana Court of Appeals, No. 39A01-1606-CR-1417

Rush, Chief Justice.

Juries decide a host of fact-sensitive disputes. Did the defendant kill “knowingly”? Resist, “forcibly”? Drive “recklessly”? When the jury returns a guilty verdict and the defendant appeals the sufficiency of the evidence, our job is not to proclaim what we would have done as jurors. Instead, we view the record favorably to the verdict and decide whether a reasonable fact-finder could convict.

Here, a jury found defendant Corey McAlpin guilty of committing various meth-related crimes with a…