GALAVIS v. State

Appellant, Roberto Galavis, appeals his conviction and sentence for attempted kidnapping. He maintains that the state failed to prove an essential element of intent, and the trial court should have granted his motion for judgment of acquittal. We affirm, concluding that the state presented circumstantial evidence from which the jury could infer the necessary intent and which was inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis of innocence.

The facts of this case are relatively straightforward. At trial, witnesses testified that Galavis was riding a three-wheel bicycle on Thanksgiving Day of 2007…