State v. Cortes

The defendant, Angel Silva Cortes, appeals his conviction of first degree sexual assault and his sentence for a term of 5 to 15 years’ imprisonment. He assigns as error the insufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction and the excessiveness of the sentence.

A conviction will not be reversed on appeal unless, after the court views the evidence most favorably for the State, it can be said that the evidence is so lacking in probative value that it is insufficient as a matter of law to support a verdict of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. State v. Frazier, 234 Neb. 107, 449 N.W.2d 230…