 | William Wills - 1857 - 296 strani
...justify the inference of legal guilt from circumstantial evidence, the existence of the inculpatory facts must be absolutely incompatible with the innocence...upon any other reasonable hypothesis than that of his guilt. This is the fundamental rule, the experimentum crucis by which the relevancy and effect... | |
 | William Wills - 1862 - 376 strani
...Ass. 1836, for a murder committed thirty-four years before, AR 1836. the inculpatory facts must be incompatible with the innocence of the accused, and...upon any other reasonable hypothesis than that of his guilt. This is the fundamental rule, the experimentum crucis by which the relevancy and effect... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1863 - 540 strani
...proof quoted above. " The " facts must be absolutely incompatible with the innocence " of the prisoner, and incapable of explanation upon any " other reasonable hypothesis than that of his guilt." If for "reasonable," "possible" were substituted, this rule would have a distinct meaning.... | |
 | John H. Colby - 1868 - 480 strani
...justify the inference of legal guilt from circumstantial evidence, the existence of the inculpatory facts must be absolutely incompatible with the innocence...upon any other reasonable hypothesis than that of his guilt." And the same author says that " this is the experimentum crucis by which the relevancy... | |
 | 1868 - 894 strani
...equivalent proof of death by evidence leading directly to that result. The evidence of the inculpatory facts must be absolutely incompatible with the innocence...upon any other reasonable hypothesis than that of his guilt. This is a fundamental rule, the experimentum crucis by which the relevancy and effect of... | |
 | 1872 - 954 strani
...justify the inference of legal guilt from circumstantial evidence, the inculpatory or criminating facts must be absolutely incompatible with the innocence...of explanation upon any other reasonable hypothesis arising from the evidence, or growing out of the proof in the case, than that of his guilt. 6. If the... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1874 - 834 strani
...justify the inference of legal guilt from circumstantial evidence, the existence of the inculpatory facts must be absolutely incompatible with the innocence...upon any other reasonable hypothesis than that of his guilt." Judges, on hearing these expressions, have been apt, in the hurry of a trial, to accept... | |
 | 1897 - 1116 strani
...they must also be such facts and circumstances as are incompatible, upon any reasonable hypothesis, with the innocence of the accused, and Incapable of explanation upon any reasonable hypothesis other than that ot the defendant's guilt.— STATB v. HAYES, Utah, 46 Pac. Rep.... | |
 | 1899 - 640 strani
...thereof, as follows: "Second. In order to justify an inference of guilt the inculpatory facts must be incompatible with the innocence of the accused and...any other reasonable hypothesis than that of guilt." "Third. It is not sufficient that the circumstances pointed to guilt, create a probability, even a... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1897 - 598 strani
...they must also be such facts and circumstances as are incompatible, upon any reasonable hypothesis, with the innocence of the accused, and incapable of explanation upon any reasonable hypothesis other than that of the defendant's guilt. The chain of circumstances must be... | |
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In order to justify the inference of legal guilt from circumstantial evidence, the existence of the inculpatory facts must be absolutely incompatible with the innocence of the accused, and incapable of explanation upon any other reasonable hypothesis... 
