 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 730 pages
...of guilty, it is not only necessary that the jurors should be so convinced by the evidence that they would venture to act upon that conviction in matters of the highest importance to their own interests, but they must, moreover, be so convinced as to exclude from their... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Apologetics - 1846 - 548 pages
...that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously denned ; the only legal test to which they can be subjected is, their sufficiency to satisfy the mind... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of...sufficiency to satisfy the mind and conscience of an ordinary man ; and so to convince him, that he would venture to act upon that conviction, in matters... | |
 | John White Webster, James Winchell Stone - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1850 - 340 pages
...reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the accused. And as has well been said, unless he be so convinced as that he would venture to act upon that conviction in matters of the highest concern to his own interest." It is the first volume, 514 page, of Starkie. It must be such a certainty, then,... | |
 | Abel F. Fitch - Counterfeiters - 1851 - 898 pages
...that amount of proof which ordinarily satisnes an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubv — The circumstances which will amount to this degree of...proof can never be previously defined, the only legal tests of which they are susceptible, is their sufficiency to satisfy the mind and conscience of a common... | |
 | John McNab (Barrister-at-law.) - Criminal procedure - 1865 - 672 pages
...that amount of proof •which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced! mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of...sufficiency to satisfy the mind and conscience of an ordinary mari.f ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES. — Justices have ample power to bring before them persons... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1866 - 756 pages
...amount &>>*" of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of...matters of the highest concern and importance to his own interest.2 Questions respecting the competency and admissibility of evidence, are entirely distinct... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 616 pages
...matter what the class of the evidence, of the defendant's guilt, that a prudent man would feel safe to act upon that conviction in matters of the highest concern and importance to his own dearest personal interests, under circumstances where there was no compulsion resting upon him to act... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Evidence (Law) - 1871 - 914 pages
...that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of...previously defined ; the only legal test of which they are suspectible, is their sufficiency to satisfy the mind and conscience of a common man ; and so to convince... | |
 | California - Civil procedure - 1872 - 698 pages
...h that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of...matters of the highest concern and importance to his own inteiest. Questions respecting the competency and admissibility of evidence are entirely 48— VOL.... | |
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By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be... 
