Rodriguez v. State

Defendant was charged and convicted of three counts of animal fighting for events occurring on a single day in April. Among other things, he appeals the refusal to suppress evidence because a search warrant was invalid and, alternatively, a denial of a judgment of acquittal because the evidence was legally insufficient to support the conviction. Although we agree with both, the latter requires that he be acquitted and discharged.

According to testimony of an investigating officer, she found over 100 animals on his property. In the backyard she found individually caged juvenile roosters, hens…