 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1921 - 664 pages
...v. State-, 26 Id. 601 (at p. 615), as follows: "It is not a mere possible doubt; because everything relating to human affairs, and depending on moral...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1896 - 942 pages
...the jury, "that the doubt must be actual and substantial, not mere possible doubt, because everything relating to human affairs and depending on moral evidence is open to some possible or imaginary doubt," is free fiom error. Ib. 26, CHARGE OF COURT TO JURY— Continued 10. Charge as to credibility of witness.... | |
 | John White Webster, George Bemis - 1850 - 730 pages
...pretty well understood, but not easily defined. It is not mere possible doubt ; because everything relating to human affairs and depending on moral evidence...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 - 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...consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction to a moral certainty... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1853 - 636 pages
...pretty well understood, but not easily defined. It is not mere possible doubt ; because every thing relating to. human affairs, and depending on moral...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 - 1853 - 702 pages
...pretty well understood, but not easily denned. It is not mere possible doubt ; because every thing relating to human affairs, and depending on moral...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,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1861 - 822 pages
...that the prisoner is guilty of the crime charged, they must acquit him: that this reasonable doubt is that state of the case which, after the entire...and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the mind of the jurors in that condition that they cannot say that they feel an abiding conviction to a... | |
 | William Gillespie Dickson - 1864 - 720 pages
...probably pretty well understood, but not easily denned. It is not mere possible doubt ; because everything relating to human affairs and depending on moral evidence...is that state of the case which, after the entire comparision and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jury in that condition,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1866 - 704 pages
...pretty well understood, but not easily denned. It is not mere possible doubt ; because every thing relating to human affairs, and depending on moral...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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It is not a mere possible doubt; because everything 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 comparison and consideration of all the evidence,... 
