... beyond a reasonable doubt. "What is reasonable doubt?" Shaw asked.55 It is a term often used, probably pretty well understood, but not easily denned. It is not mere possible doubt; because everything relating to human affairs, and depending on moral... Southern Reporter - Page 2811902Full view - About this book
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 664 pages
...relating to human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is ' open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case which, after the entire...consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty,... | |
| Methodist Church - 1880 - 820 pages
...every reasonable donbt. But this doubt must not be a mere whim or caprice. It has been defined to be " that state of the case which, after the entire comparison...consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction to a moral certainty... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 738 pages
...relating to human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is open to some possible or imaginary doubt It is that state of the case which, after the entire...consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jury in that condition that they 4 feel an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the truth of... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 738 pages
...the case, which, after the entire consideration and comparison, leaves the minds of the jury in such condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the charge. The defendant insists, that he cannot be rightfully convicted, because he did not intend to... | |
| John White Webster, George Bemis - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1850 - 730 pages
...case, which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in that condition that they cannot say they...to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge. The burden of proof is upon the prosecutor. All the presumptions of law independent of evidence are... | |
| John White Webster, George Bemis - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1850 - 670 pages
...relating to human affairs and depending on moral evidence is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case, which, after the entire...consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty,... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 796 pages
...in a verdict of not guilty, and by a reasonable doubt I do not mean mere possible doubt, but I mean that state of the case which, after the entire comparison...conviction to a moral certainty of the truth of the charge made against the defendant. The burden of the proof is on the prosecutor. All the presumptions of law,... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 808 pages
...consideration of all of the evidence in the case, in that condition that you cannot say that you have an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the truth of the charge here made against this respondent." The court said to the jury in part as follows: "Another rule is... | |
| Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1853 - 636 pages
...relating to. human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case, which, after the entire...consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of Jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty,... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 702 pages
...relating to human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case, which, after the entire...consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty,... | |
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