 ... see the person fall a lifeless corpse ; and you infer, from all these circumstances, that there was a ball discharged from the gun which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cause of such an effect. But you...  North American Journal of Homoeopathy - Page 6031903Full view - About this book
 | 1880 - 820 pages
...from the gun which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cause of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave...through the air, and enter the body of the slain, and your testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential ; in other words, circumstantial.... | |
 | John White Webster, George Bemis - 1850 - 670 pages
...from the gun which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cause of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave...through the air, and enter the body of the slain ; and your testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential, — in other words, circumstantial.... | |
 | John White Webster, George Bemis - 1850 - 660 pages
...from the gun which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cans of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave the gur. pass through the air, and enter the body of the slain ; and your testimony to the fact of killing... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 450 pages
...from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cause of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave...through the air, and enter the body of the slain ; and your testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential, — in other words, circum*... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1874 - 834 pages
...the gun, which entered his body and caused his 674 death, because such is the usual and natural cause of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave...through the air, and enter the body of the slain : and your testimony to the fact of killing is thereby only inferential — in other words, circumstantial.... | |
 | 1875 - 980 pages
...from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cause of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave...death on any other supposition. In case of death from the concussion of the brain, strong doubts have been raised by physicians, founded on appearances verified... | |
 | 1880 - 806 pages
....gun which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cause of sucli an effect. But you did not see the ball leave the...through the air, and enter the body of the slain, and your testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential; in other words,- circumstantial.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 478 pages
...299. the gun, which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cause of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave...through the air, and enter the body of the slain ; and your testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential, — in other words, circumstantial.... | |
 | OLIVER WENDELL HOLMS - 1891 - 470 pages
...299. the gun, which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cause of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave...through the air, and enter the body of the slain ; and your testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential, — in other words, circumstantial.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 482 pages
...of killing is, therefore, only inferential, — in other words, circumstantial. It is possible that no ball was in the gun ; and we infer that there was, only because we cannot account for death on any other supposition." • " The question always comes to this : Is the circumstance of intercourse... | |
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