Bankston v. State

Marshall, Presiding Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case because the standard used by the Court of Appeals in affirming one of the appellant Bankston’s two burglary convictions does not comport with Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979).

The appellant was convicted of multiple counts of burglary and theft by receiving. In affirming the theft-by-receiving convictions, the Court of Appeals held that, “The evidence was sufficient to convince any rational trier of fact of the existence of the essential elements of all the crimes with which the appellant was…