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 Northeastern Reporter - Página 1911906Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John White Webster, George Bemis - 1850 - 670 páginas
...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 - 1909 - 796 páginas
...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 - 1853 - 702 páginas
...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 - 1853 - 636 páginas
...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 - 1861 - 822 páginas
...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 - 1866 - 704 páginas
...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... | |
| 1907 - 2170 páginas
...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 - 1883 - 626 páginas
...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... | |
| 1908 - 1164 páginas
...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... | |
| 1911 - 1168 páginas
...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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