 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 792 pages
...charge upon the question of probable cause necessary to quote is as follows : " Probable cause is the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief in a reasonable mind that the ground alleged against the accused for the arrest actually existed. "To constitute probable... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Civil procedure - 1871 - 952 pages
..." is the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite in a reasonable mind the belief that the person charged was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted ; that is, acting upon the facts within knowledge of the prosecutor, if a reasonable man would believe... | |
 | Law - 1898 - 562 pages
...71 Cal. 89, 38 may be inferred from want of probable cause.88 Probable cause is defined to be, "the existence of such facts and circumstances as would...person charged was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted."88 The existence of malice is always a question for the jury. The court has no right to... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...it must be proved, or the plaintiff must fail. Probable cause, In a criminal prosecution, is " the existence of such facts and circumstances as would...mind, acting on the facts within the knowledge of the prosecution, that the person charged was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted. Both malice... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 588 pages
...Thomp. Trials, § 2401. The next instruction complained of reads as follows: " Probable cause is the existence of such facts and circumstances as would...mind, acting on the facts within the knowledge of the defendant bank, that the plaintiff Hamer had departed from the Territory of Utah, at the time in question,... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...it must be proved, or the plaintiff must fail. Probable cause, in a criminal prosecution, is " the existence of such facts and circumstances as would...mind, acting on the facts within the knowledge of the prosecution, that the person charged was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted. Both malice... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 1044 pages
...in the case of Wheeler v. Nesbitt, 24 How. IT. SR 544, where it is held that "probable cause is the existence of such facts and circumstances as would...guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted." The like doctrine is elsewhere stated in somewhat different terms thus: "Probable cause for instituting... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1120 pages
...evidence must point to crime and indicate the defendant as the probable criminal. "Probable cause is the existence of such facts and circumstances as would...guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted." Wheeler v. Nesbitt et al., 24 How. 544, 16 L. Ed. 765. "Probable cause, as defined in the books, is... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 1112 pages
...not be submitted to the jury. What will constitute probable cause is defined in the books to he "the existence of such facts and circumstances as would...prosecutor, that the person charged was guilty of the offense for which he was prosecuted." Cox v. Lauritsen, 126 Minn. 128, 147 NW 1093. But if there is... | |
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the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief, in a reasonable mind, acting on the facts within the knowledge of the prosecutor, that the person charged was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted. 
