California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Morgan, F075694 (Cal. App. 2018):
resolve factual conflicts, as these are functions reserved for the trier of fact." (People v. Tripp (2007) 151 Cal.App.4th 951, 955; People v. Young (2005) 34 Cal.4th 1149, 1181.) We look for substantial evidence, and we may not reverse a conviction for insufficiency of the evidence unless it appears that upon no hypothesis whatever is there sufficient substantial evidence to support the conviction. (People v. Bolin (1998) 18 Cal.4th 297, 331.)
Although we review the whole record, "[t]he uncorroborated testimony of a single witness is sufficient to sustain a conviction, unless the testimony is physically impossible or inherently improbable." (People v. Scott (1978) 21 Cal.3d 284, 296; People v. Panah (2005) 35 Cal.4th 395, 489.) Furthermore, " ' " '[c]ircumstantial evidence may be sufficient to connect a defendant with the crime and to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.' " ' " (People v. Bradford (1997) 15 Cal.4th 1229, 1329.) If the circumstances, plus all the logical inferences the jury might have drawn from them, reasonably justify the jury's findings, our opinion that the circumstances might also reasonably be reconciled with a contrary finding does not warrant a reversal of the judgment. (Ibid.; People v. Panah, supra, at p. 488.)
Section 69, which defines the crime of resisting an executive officer, provides in relevant part:
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