 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1854 - 780 pages
...to acquit him ; the charge not being proved by that higher degree of evidence which the law demands. In civil cases it is sufficient if the evidence on...the guilt of the party. In both cases a verdict may be well founded on circumstances alone; and these often lead to a conclusion far more satisfactory... | |
 | Abraham Oakey Hall - 1850 - 44 pages
...OF THE NEW-YORK BAR. 'ft /L . 7 ~> ' // t Jif , * 4 « / '/r J •*• ""• ^^ 11 IN civil case*. It is sufficient if the evidence on the whole agrees with and suppDrts the hypothesis which it is adduced to prove ; but in criminal casts, it must ezcla.de every... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - 1856 - 356 pages
...admirable work, on Evidence, vol. i. sec. 13, Professor Greenleaf remarks, that, in both civil and criminal cases, " a verdict may well be founded on circumstances alone; and these often lead to a conclusion, far more satisfactory than direct evidence can produce." The errors, committed by the Judges, upon... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - 1856 - 370 pages
...admirable work, on Evidence, vol. i. sec. 13, Professor Greenleaf remarks, that, in both civil and criminal cases, " a verdict may well be founded on circumstances alone ; and these often lead to a conclusion, far more satisfactory than direct evidence can produce.'" The errors, committed by the Judges, upon... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1866 - 756 pages
...to acquit him ; the charge not being proved by that higher degree of evidence which the law demands. In civil cases, it is sufficient if the evidence,...be founded on circumstances alone ; and these often load to a conclusion far more satisfactory than direct evidence can produce.1 to 48. And see Commonwealth... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1867 - 656 pages
...every hypothesis but the one proposed to be proved." 1 Stark, Ev. 575. The evidence " in criminal cases must exclude every other hypothesis but that of the guilt of the party." 1 Grcenl. Ev. 13. "And this degree of conviction ought to be produced, when the facts proved coincide... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1871 - 670 pages
...to acquit him, the charge not being proved by that higher degree of evidence which the law demands. In civil cases it is sufficient if the evidence on...other hypothesis but that of the guilt of the party. 1 Greenleaf's Ev. § 13, a; 3 id. § 28; People v. McCann, 16 NY 58. Reasonable doubt is defined by... | |
 | 1872 - 954 pages
...a great crimo creates an unusual tendency to exaggerate facts and draw rash inferences. — Ib. 14. In civil cases it is sufficient if the evidence on the whole agrees with and rapports the hypothesis which it is adduced to prove ; but in criminal oases, in order to a cceviction,... | |
 | L. B. Horrigan, Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1874 - 1132 pages
...to acquit him, the charge not being proved by that higher degree of evidence which the law demands. In civil cases, it is sufficient if the evidence on...other hypothesis but that of the guilt of the party. \ Greenleaf 's Ev., §13 a; 3 Ib., §29; People v. McCann, 16 NY, 58. Reasonable doubt is denned by... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1876 - 762 pages
...to acquit him ; the charge not being proved by that higher degree of evidence which the law demands. In civil cases, it is sufficient if the evidence,...every other hypothesis but that of the guilt of the party.1 In both cases, a verdict may well be founded on circumstances alone ; and these often lead... | |
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In civil cases it is sufficient if the evidence on the whole agrees with and supports the hypothesis which it is adduced to prove; but in criminal cases it must exclude every other hypothesis, but that of the guilt of the party. 
