 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1872 - 806 páginas
...State." Such a charge invades the province of the jury, who are the sole judges of the credibility to be accorded to each witness ; and it is also objectionable...yet be sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the mind of the jury, and thus secure the defendant's acquittal.6 ted, and, if committed, whether the ac-... | |
 | 1872 - 954 páginas
...would be going a great way too far to lay it down as a fixed rule, that proof of good character is sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury, when, excluding such proof, the evidence is sufficient to satisfy them of the guilt of the accused.... | |
 | 1897 - 1116 páginas
...not present at the commission ol the crime, or that he was in some other place. If the evidence is sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the Jury as to whether he was or was not present at the commission of the crime, he is entitled to an acquittal.... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1878 - 884 páginas
...sustain. When to a charge of murder the defense is an alibi, if the evidence in support of the alibi is sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury, the accused is entitled to an acquittal. TNDICTMENT for murder. The opinion states the case sufX ficiently.... | |
 | 1879 - 632 páginas
...insufficient in itself to make it complete, but if, taken in connection with other proofs in the case, is sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury, the accused is entitled to an acquittal. Pollard v. The State, 53 Miss. 410. The evidence in this case... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1883 - 926 páginas
...about to make a felonious assault on him. "4th. If the evidence and circumstances in this case are sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury as to whether the defendant believed the witness, Bailey, was ubout to makc a felonious assault upon... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1884 - 708 páginas
...the state would make out a case of manslaughter, yet if the testimony offered by the accused would be sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury whether or not the accused was guilty of manslaughter, it would be the duty of the jury to acquit..... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1884 - 934 páginas
...charge of murder the defence was an alibi, it was held that, if the evidence in support of the alibi was sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury, the accused is entitled to an acquit tal. And in this case, it was seriously questioned whether there... | |
 | 1901 - 1134 páginas
...accused to satisfy the Jury that the killing was Justifiable, but If the evidence on that question Is sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury as to whether the defendant was justifiable, then the defendant is entitled to an acquittal." "No.... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1888 - 710 páginas
...fact, what its effect shall be, or what weight ought to be attached to it by the jury, or what shall be sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury. It is the peculiar and exclusive province of the jury to determine all such questions, and their right... | |
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... is sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury, when, excluding such proof, the evidence is sufficient to satisfy them of the guilt of the accused. 
