 | Law - 1845 - 490 pages
...evidence.) Where a person on whom stolen property is found gives to those who find him in possession of it a reasonable account of how he came by it, it is incumbent on the prosecutor, on the trial, to show that that account is untrue. Aliitr, if that account be unreasonable or improbable... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Courts, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 824 pages
...ALDERSON, B., (in summing up). — In cases of this nature you should take it as a general principle, that, where a man, in whose possession stolen property is found, gives a reathat account is untrue. Aliter, if that account be unreasonable or improbable on the face of it.... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1852 - 988 pages
...within seven years, the party asserting his death must prove it. Ante, p. 22. Where a person on whom stolen property is found gives a reasonable account of how he came by it, the prosecutor ought to show on the trial that the account is untrue. Aliter, if that account be unreasonable... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1852 - 750 pages
...called as a witness for the prosecution : Aldei'sou, B., laid it down as a general princlple, that when a man in whose possession stolen property is found, gives a reasonable account how he came by it, as by telling the name of the person from whom he received it, and who is known... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1853 - 636 pages
...consider what weight, if any, ought to be given to the evidence ; l the geneeral principle being this ; that where a man, in whose possession stolen property...incumbent on the prosecutor to show that the account is false.2 § 33. But to raise the presumption of guilt from the possession of the fruits or the instruments... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - Cross-examination - 1854 - 930 pages
...40. (u) 1 Car. & K. 370. 270 INSTRUMENTS OF EVIDENCE. ture you should take it as a general principle, that, where a man, in whose possession stolen property...found, gives a reasonable account of how he came by it, as by telling the name of the person from whom he received it, and who is known to be a real person,... | |
 | Thomas William Saunders - Justices of the peace - 1855 - 324 pages
...ALDEBSON, in summing up, said : " In cases of this nature, you should take it as a general principle, that where a man in whose possession stolen property...found, gives a reasonable account of how he came by it, as by telling the name of the person from whom he received it, and who is known to be a real person,... | |
 | Thomas William Saunders - Police magistrates - 1858 - 458 pages
...ALDERSON, in summing up, said : "In cases of this nature, you should take it as a general principle, that where a man in whose possession stolen property...found, gives a reasonable account of how he came by it, as by telling the name of the person from whom he received it, and who is known to be a real person,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 pages
...presumption that the property could not have been acquired iu nny other manner, the court are warranted ia where a man, in whose possession stolen property is...found, gives a reasonable account of how he came by it, as by telling the name of the person from whom he received it, and who is known to be a real person,... | |
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In cases of this nature, you should take it as a general principle, that where a man in whose possession stolen property is found, gives a reasonable account of how he came by it, as by telling the name of the person from whom he received it, and who... 
