People v. Jefferson

Defendant appeals as of right from a 4-to-16 year sentence for armed robbery as the result of a jury verdict of guilty, following a trial that lasted seven days in July of 1975 when defendant, with two co-defendants, were tried on a charge that arose from the robbery of Garlock’s Drug Store in Pontiac, Michigan.

Defendant contends that the trial court committed reversible error by failing to instruct the jury that in a case based on circumstantial evidence, the facts proven must not only point to defendant’s guilt, but must be inconsistent with any other reasonable hypothesis upon which…