Levi v. State

The majority, by invoking the principle of “substantial evidence”, places its imprimatur upon what I can characterize only as a gross miscarriage of justice. In its quest for a quantum of evidence to support the jury’s finding that appellant had committed child abuse resulting in serious permanent disfigurement, the majority loses sight of “one of the most basic concepts of due process of the law,” that a person may not be punished without evidence to support each and every element of the crime with which he is charged. Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham, 382 U.S. 87, 94-95 (1965); Thompson…