 | John White Webster, George Bemis - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1850 - 730 pages
...of the guilt of the accused, it breaks the chain of circumstantial evidence upon which the inference depends; and, however plausible or apparently conclusive...be, the charge must fail. Of this character is the defence usually called an alibi ; that is, that the accused was elsewhere at the time the offence is... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 702 pages
...of circumstantial evidence upon which the inference depends; and, however Commonwealth r. Webster. plausible or apparently conclusive the other circumstances...be, the charge must fail. Of this character is the defence usually called an alibi ; that is, that the accused was elsewhere at the time the offence is... | |
 | Charles Edwin Wilbour - Trials (Murder) - 1862 - 252 pages
...of the guilt of the accused, it breaks the chain of circumstantial evidence upon which the inference depends, and, however plausible or apparently conclusive...be, the charge must fail. " Of this character is the defence usually called an alibi, that is, that the accused was elsewhere at the time the offence is... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 704 pages
...of circumstantial evidence upon which the inference depends; and. how.vej Commonwealth v. Webster. plausible or apparently conclusive the other circumstances...be, the charge must fail. Of this character is the defence usually called an alibi ; that is, that the accused was elsewhere at the time the offence is... | |
 | Amasa Junius Parker - Criminal law - 1868 - 738 pages
...guilt of the accused, it breaks the chain of circumstantial evidence upon which the inferences depend, and however plausible or apparently conclusive the other circumstances may be, the charge must fail. The circumstances all taken together must be of a conclusive nature and tendency, leading on the whole... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1128 pages
...trial by a jury, every member of which is a resident of the territory which comprised the district at the time the offense is alleged to have been committed. If 1. See Jury, vol. 31, Cent. Dig. §§ 8, 229. — EFFECT OF CHANGE IN BOUNDARY OF DISTRICT. By Act... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1156 pages
...the equally \ positive testimony of the defendant, and testimony tending to corroborate him that he was elsewhere at the time the offense is alleged to have been committed, neither of which state of facts involves either an absurdity of reasoning or an Impossibility... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - Cross-examination - 1889 - 1428 pages
...of the guilt of the accused, it breaks the chain of circumstantial evidence upon which the inference depends ; and. however plausible or apparently conclusive...fail. Of this character is the defense usually called au alibi, that is, that the accused was elsewhere at the time the offense is alleged to have been committed.... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 702 pages
...of the guilt of the accused, it breaks the chain of circumstantial evidence upon which the inference depends ; and, however plausible or apparently conclusive the other circumstances may be, the charge must fall." Commonwealth v. Webster, 5 Cush. 295 (318). Again, the appellant voluntarily put his character... | |
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If the jury shall find the defendant guilty, or if the defendant pleads only not guilty by reason of insanity, then the question whether the defendant was sane or insane at the time the offense was committed shall be promptly tried... 
