 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 664 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...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,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 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... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 738 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John White Webster, George Bemis - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1850 - 670 pages
...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...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 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...the minds of the jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the truth of the charge made against... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1853 - 636 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...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 702 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...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 - Equity - 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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 704 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | John H. Colby - Criminal law - 1868 - 480 pages
...to human affairs and depending upon moral evidence is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case which, after the entire...the minds of the jurors in that condition that they cannot say that they feel an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the charge." i The above rule... | |
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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,... 
