Is sufficient evidence sufficient to support a verdict?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Empire Hotel Company Limited, 1971 CanLII 817 (SK QB):
As Cartwright J. (as he then was) put it in Regina v. Taylor, 1963 CanLII 77 (SCC), [1963] S.C.R. 491 at 494, [1963] 3 C.C.C. 97, 40 D.L.R. (2d) 12: “The question whether there is any evidence (as distinguished from sufficient evidence) to support a verdict is a matter of law.”
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