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 | John White Webster, George Bemis - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1850 - 670 pages
...the charge. The burden of proof is upon the prosecutor. All the presumptions of law independent of evidence are in favor of innocence ; and every person is presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty. If upon such proof there be reasonable doubt remaining, the accused is entitled to the... | |
 | 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
...defendant. The burden of the proof is on the prosecutor. All the presumptions of law, independent of evidence, are in favor of innocence, and every person is presumed to be innocent until he is proven to be guilty. If upon such proof there is reasonable doubt remaining, the accused is entitled to an... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 702 pages
...the charge. The burden of proof is upon the prosecutor. All the presumptions of law independent of evidence are in favor of innocence ; and every person is presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty. If upon such proof there is reasonable doubt remaining, the accused Is entitled to the... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1853 - 636 pages
...the charge. The burden of proof is upon the prosecutor. All the presumptions of law independent of evidence are in favor of innocence ; and every person is presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty. If upon such proof there is reasonable doubt remaining, the accused is entitled to the... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1861 - 822 pages
...closed, the presiding Judge charged the Jury as follows : " All the presumptions of Law, independent of evidence, are in favor of innocence, and every person is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. The burden «£ the proof is, therefore, on the State, to establish, by evidence,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 704 pages
...the charge. The burden of proof is upon the prosecutor. All the presumptions of law independent of evidence are in favor of innocence ; and every person is presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty If upon such proof there is reasonable doubt remaining, the accused is entitled to the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 2170 pages
...hnnds. "(k) Burden of proof throughout the trial Is upon the United States. All thu presumptions of law, independent of the evidence, are in favor of...every person is presumed to be Innocent until he is proved guilty. If upon such proof there be reasonable doubt remaining, the accused is entitled to the... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Law - 1883 - 626 pages
...and sums up in itself all the other safeguards of individual liberty, is embodied in the maxim that every person is presumed to be innocent, until he is proven guilty, and its corollary that a conviction can only proceed iipon such a state of evidence as does not leave... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1164 pages
...the charge. The burden of proof is upon the prosecutor. All the presumptions of law Independent of evidence are in favor of innocence, and every person is presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty. If upon such proof there is reasonable doubt remaining, the accused is entitled to the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1168 pages
...assault is charged to have been committed, it will be your duty to acquit him." And again told them that: "Every person Is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty. If, upon such proof, there is reasonable doubt remaining, the accused is entitled to the benefit of... | |
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