 By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be...  The Federal Reporter - Sida 4581903Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1860 - 730 sidor
...of guilty, it is not only necessary that the jurors should be so convinced by the evidence that they would venture to act upon that conviction in matters of the highest importance to their own interests, but they must, moreover, be so convinced as to exclude from their... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1833 - 864 sidor
...the guilt of the accused, and, as has been well ob. served, unless he be so convinced by the evidence that he would venture to act upon that conviction...highest concern and importance to his own interest ; and in no case, as it seems, ought the force of circumstantial evidence, where it is adequate to... | |
 | Esek Cowen, Nicholas Hill - 1839 - 906 sidor
...doubt of guilt is excluded from lus mind ; that is to say, unless he be so convinced by tire evidence that he would venture to act upon that conviction...highest concern and importance to his own interest. And in no case, as it seems, ought the force of circumstantial evidence, v/'icrc it is adequate to... | |
 | 1842 - 1552 sidor
...all reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the accused, and unless he be so convinced by the evidence, that he would venture to act upon that conviction,...highest concern and importance to his own interest," Pint Hypothesis. — Huntley really did go off in the way alleged, to America or elsewhere, to avoid... | |
 | 1842 - 630 sidor
...reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the accused, and i,nless he be so convinced by the evidence, t/iat he would venture to act upon that conviction, in matters...highest concern and importance to his own interest. • Fi1st Hypothesis. — Huntley really did go off in the way alleged, to America or elsewhere, to... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1847 - 604 sidor
...is, their sufficiency to satisfy the mind and conscience of a man of common prndence and discretion, and so to convince him, that he would venture to act...highest concern and importance to his own interest.* If, therefore, the subject is a problem in mathematies, its truth is to be shown by the certainty of... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1896 - 942 sidor
...homicide, and not at his home, and to do this to that degree of certainty that they would each of them venture to act upon that conviction in matters of...highest concern and importance to his own interest, then the jury must find the defendant not guilty." (46) "Before the jury can convict the defendant,... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 764 sidor
...satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined ; the only...sufficiency to satisfy the mind and conscience of an ordinary man ; and so to convince him, that he would venture to act upon that conviction, in matters... | |
 | John White Webster, George Bemis - 1850 - 730 sidor
...guilt of the accused, and, as has well been observed, unless he be so convinced by the evidence, as that he would venture to act upon that conviction...highest concern and importance to his own interest." It must be such a certainty, then, Gentlemen, that you would not hesitate to act upon it in matters... | |
 | John White Webster, James Winchell Stone - 1850 - 340 sidor
...reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the accused. And as has well been said, unless he be so convinced as that he would venture to act upon that conviction in matters of the highest concern to his own interest." It is the first volume, 514 page, of Starkie. It must be such a certainty, then,... | |
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