 | Nicholas St. John Green - Criminal law - 1879 - 838 pages
...which he is charged ; it therefore predisposes the mind of the juror to believe the prisoner guilty. To make one criminal act evidence of another, a connection...necessary to identify the person of the actor, by a connection which shows that he who committed the one must have done the other. Without this obvious... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Criminal law - 1874 - 834 pages
...supreme court of Pennsylvania in 1872. "To make," said Judge Agnew, in giving the opinion of the court, " one criminal act evidence of another, a connection...in the mind of the actor, linking them together for 8ome purpose he intended to accomplish ; or it must be necessary to identify the person of the actor,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 840 pages
...which he is charged ; it therefore predisposes the mind of the juror to believe the prisoner guilty. To make one criminal act evidence of another, a connection...necessary to identify the person of the actor, by a connection which shows that he who committed the one must have done the other. Without this obvious... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Homicide - 1875 - 856 pages
...court of Pennsylvania in 1872. " To make," said Judge Agnew, in giving the opinion of the court, " one criminal act evidence of another, a connection...necessary to identify the person of the actor, by a connection which shows that he who committed the one must have done the other. Without this obvious... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Homicide - 1875 - 848 pages
...purpose he intended to accomplish ; or it must be necessary to identify the person of the actor, by a connection which shows that he who committed the one must have done the other. Without this obvious connection, it is not only unjust to the prisoner, to compel him to* acquit... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1876 - 762 pages
...in Pennsylvania, where it was said that, to make one criminal act evidence of another, a connection must have existed in the mind of the actor, linking...be necessary to identify the person of the actor by a connection which shows that he who committed one act must have done the othev. Shaffner v. Com.,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 884 pages
...which he is charged. It, therefore, predisposes the mind of tlie juror to believe the prisoner guilty. To make one criminal act evidence of another, a connection between them mast have existed in the miud of the actor, linking them together for some purpose he intended to accomplish... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 632 pages
...charged, evidence of a prior offence may be received if it be shown that "a connection between them existed in the mind of the actor linking them together for some purpose he intended to accomplish." But evidence of a subsequent offence, not immediately connected in time and circumstances with the... | |
 | Criminal law - 1904 - 646 pages
...between the same persons, was inadmissible. In Shaffner v. Commonwealth (72 Penn. St. 65) it was said: "To make one criminal act evidence of another, a connection...some purpose he intended to accomplish, or it must bo necessary to identify the person of the actor by a connection which shows that he who committed... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1178 pages
...Com., supra, the highest court of Pennsylvania said: "To make one criminal act evidence of another, и connection between them must have existed in the mind...be necessary to identify the person of the actor by a connection which shows that he who committed the one must have doue the other. Without this obvious... | |
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To make one criminal act evidence of another, a connection between them must have existed in the mind of the actor, linking them together for some purpose he intended to accomplish; or it must be necessary to identify the person of the actor, by a connection... 
