Ordered that the order is affirmed.
The evidence presented against the defendant at trial was entirely circumstantial. The well-settled standard of proof in such cases is that the facts from which the inference of guilt is drawn must be inconsistent with the defendant's innocence and must exclude to a moral certainty every other reasonable hypothesis (People v Way,
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