 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 664 pages
...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...to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge. The burden of proof is on the prosecution. If upon such proof there be reasonable doubt remaining,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1880 - 820 pages
...benefit of 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...to a moral certainty of the truth of the charge." In other words, proof beyond reasonable doubt is that which " establishes the truth of a fact to a... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 738 pages
...comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jury in that condition that they 4 feel an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the truth of the charge." There can be no reasonable objection to this. The appellant asked the court below to instruct the jury... | |
 | John White Webster, George Bemis - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1850 - 730 pages
...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...to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge. The burden of proof is upon the prosecutor. All the presumptions of law independent of evidence are... | |
 | 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 - 1909 - 796 pages
...case which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jurors in that condition that they cannot say they...conviction to a moral certainty of the truth of the charge made against the defendant. The burden of the proof is on the prosecutor. All the presumptions of law,... | |
 | 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 - 1919 - 808 pages
...consideration of all of the evidence in the case, in that condition that you cannot say that you have an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the truth of the charge here made against this respondent." The court said to the jury in part as follows: "Another rule is... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 702 pages
...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...to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge. The burden of proof is upon the prosecutor. All the presumptions of law independent of evidence are... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1853 - 636 pages
...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...to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge. The burden of proof is upon the prosecutor. All the presumptions of law independent of evidence are... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1861 - 822 pages
...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 moral certainty of the truth of the charge ; that the simple rule on this subject is, that the Jury must not convict the prisoner without plain... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 922 pages
...meant by " beyond a reasonable doubt." All that is meant is, that the jury from the evidence should feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge; a mathematical or absolute certainty cannot be and is not required If there is reasonable doubt the... | |
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It is not 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,... 
