| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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