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" Alaska, should define crimes, provide penalties therefor, but always go back to the constitutional provision that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty... "
Alaskan Fisheries: Hearings Before the Committee on Merchant Marine and ... - Page 9
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1940 - 158 pages
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United ..., Volume 1

United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - Admiralty - 1877 - 684 pages
...gentlemen, is upon the government. It is a wise maxim of the law in favor of life and liberty, that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty, and this presumption is to continue with your sitting as jurors, until it has been overcome by the testimony...
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Annual Report

United States - 1888 - 758 pages
...commission would make a reversal of the law, "so old that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proven to be guilty. It is ceftaiuly against justice and public policy to propose to investigate any supposed...
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House Journal of the ... of the State of Washington

Washington (State). Legislature. House of Representatives - Legislative journals - 1890 - 952 pages
...duty by all state and county officers." There is a fundamental principle in our eriminal jurisprndence that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty. This beneficent presumption has, without exception, Iwen recognized and applied by every court in every...
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Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 90

Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1080 pages
...court, who had already in two preceding instructions told the jury that, " in the eyes of the law every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty, and not only is the burden of proving the guilt of a person charged wilh crime, on the commonwealth, but...
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Annual Report

United States - 1900 - 596 pages
...niisdeincauor; and it is a well-settled principle in law (although it may be unknown to Senator Chandler) that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty. I'pnii the question of the guilt or innocence of Senator Gallinger I quote this slato mrnt of Senator...
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The North American Journal of Homeopathy, Volume 48

1900 - 968 pages
...curentur as a personal mandate and obeys it to the best of his ability. Taking cognizance of the fact that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proven to be guilty, I conclude that in this country our school numbers not less than 9,369 practitioners....
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior and Common Pleas ...

Ohio. Superior Court (Montgomery County), Oscar M. Gottschall - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 520 pages
...prove that he did set fire to the goods, or that he caused ' to be -lone In a civil or criminal action a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty. The commission of the crime must be established, the jury must be convinced. If the fact is left doubtful...
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Congressional Serial Set

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Immigration - Emigration and immigration law - 1902 - 508 pages
...our hands, and if you throw the burden upon him it seems to me to be in violation of the general rule that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty. Senator McLAURiN of Mississippi. The man has not complied witli the law further than up to that point;...
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Defrauding the Government: True Tales of Smuggling, from the Note-book of a ...

William Henry Theobald - Smuggling - 1908 - 534 pages
...mind and pay the duty before passing out. You understand, gentlemen, of course, that the defendant is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty, and that the Government must convince you beyond a reasonable doubt that he is guilty on these several counts....
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Studies in the Book of Daniel: A Discussion of the Historical Questions

Robert Dick Wilson - Bible - 1917 - 432 pages
...i, 70-82. by evidence which are often made against the truthfulness of the Old Testament writings. A man is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty. A book, or document, is supposed to be true until it is proven false. And as to particular objections...
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