In State v. Martin, 340 S.C. 597, 533 S.E.2d 572 (2000), the Court reversed a murder conviction when the State's case was purely circumstantial and the evidence was insufficient to establish the defendant's presence at the scene of the crime at the time of the murder. Although the State presented evidence that a car resembling the one in the possession of the defendant was at the victim's apartment complex the night of the murder, there was no evidence that this car was actually the car in the defendant's possession. In reversing the conviction, our supreme court stated, "like the footprints in Schrock, the possibility that it was the same car, without any other evidence placing the defendants at the scene, is not enough evidence to place the defendant inside the Victim's apartment." Id. at 603, 533 S.E.2d at 575. In State v. Martin, the Court found the trial court erred in failing to grant the defendant's motion for directed verdict because there was a total lack of evidence, either direct or circumstantial, linking the defendants to the murder. In that case, the State was unable to establish a time of death of the victim, lacked any witnesses identifying the defendants at the scene of the crime at the time of the murder, and had no evidence of the defendants being in the victim's apartment any time after the victim was last seen. The Martin court inculcated: "In this case, the State failed to meet the "any substantial evidence" standard. Most significantly, the State's evidence failed to place either defendant inside the apartment. The Solicitor himself summed up the State's failure of proof by confessing to the trial judge "we don't know which person actually held Victim's head in that pan of water" and "Your Honor, the whole point is we don't know if they acted in concert." Put another way, unlike the usual accomplice liability case or aiding and abetting situation, here the State had no proof that either defendant held Victim's head under water and the State had no proof that the defendants were working together to bring about the Victim's death.Taken in a light most favorable to its position, the State has shown that a car resembling the one in possession of the Defendant was parked at the Victim's apartment complex the night the murder was committed. There is no evidence (such as a license tag number) that the black car was actually defendant's girlfriend's black mustang. The State also presented no evidence that both defendants arrived at the apartment complex in that car or that either defendant entered Victim's apartment. Furthermore, there is no evidence establishing the death occurred during the time the black car was in front of the building. This case is similar to State v. Schrock, 283 S.C. 129, 322 S.E.2d 450 (1984), in which this Court reversed the denial of a directed verdict in a murder conviction. In Schrock, the State presented evidence the defendant was in the area of the murders and that footprints at the scene of the crime were similar to footprints found in the area in which Schrock admitted he had been walking. In this case, the black car seen at the apartment is not identified as the defendant's girlfriend's car. Like the footprints in Schrock, the possibility that it was the same car, without any other evidence placing the defendants at the scene, is not enough evidence to place Defendant inside Victim's apartment." (Martin, 340 S.C. at 602-03, 533 S.E.2d at 574-75.)