MOLLOY, Judge.
This appeal questions the propriety of failing to instruct a jury in a criminal action that, before there could be conviction on circumstantial evidence, each fact essential to complete a chain of circumstantial evidence must be established beyond a reasonable doubt and such evidence must exclude every rational hypothesis of innocence.
The defendant was charged with burglary and grand theft and convicted on both counts. The evidence establishes...
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