 | 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 - 1884 - 684 pages
...criminal act. It is resorted to as a means of arriving at an ultimate fact, not for the purpose of explaining the reason of a criminal act which has been clearly proved, but from the important aid it may render in completing the proof of the commission of the act when... | |
 | Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1902 - 850 pages
...criminal act. It is resorted to as a means of arriving at an ultimate fact, not for the purpose of explaining the reason of a criminal act which has been clearly proved, but from the important aid it may render in completing the proof of the commission of the act when... | |
 | Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - Evidence (Law). - 1905 - 954 pages
...criminal act. It is resorted to as a means of arriving at an ultimate fact, not for the purpose of explaining the reason of a criminal act, which has been clearly proved, but for the important aid it may render in completing the proof of the commission of the act when it... | |
 | Alabama. Court of Appeals, Lawrence H. Lee - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 774 pages
...the accused which will aid in identifying him as the wrongdoer." — Hudson r. State, 61 Ala. 333. "They are resorted to as elements of evidence, not...proved and fixed upon the accused, however strange and inexplicable such act itself may appear, but from the important aid they always render in completing... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1316 pages
...criminal act. It is resorted to as a means of arriving at an ultimate fact, not for the purpose of explaining the reason of a criminal act which has been clearly proved, but from the important aid it may render in completing the proof of the commission of the act when... | |
 | George A. Thacher - Criminal anthropology - 1919 - 160 pages
...criminal act. It is resorted to as a means of arriving at an ultimate fact, not for the purpose of explaining the reason of a criminal act which has been clearly proved, but from the important aid it may render in completing the proof of the commission of the act when... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1917 - 954 pages
...criminal act. It is resorted to as a means of arriving at an ultimate fact, not for the purpose of explaining the reason of a criminal act which has been clearly proved, tmt from the important aid it may render in completing the proof of the commission of the act when... | |
 | Law - 1897 - 1148 pages
..."motives are made use of, like other evidentiary circumstances, not for their own sake, or from any view of speculative curiosity, but simply as means of arriving...explaining, the reason of a criminal act which has been proven and fixed upon the accused, however strange or Inexplicable such act may in itself appear, but... | |
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Motive is an inducement, or that which leads or tempts the mind to indulge the criminal act. It is resorted to as a means of arriving at an ultimate fact, not for the purpose of explaining the reason of a criminal act which has been clearly proved, but... 