 | William Wills - Evidence (Law) - 1857 - 296 pages
...previously. (a:) HULE 4. — In order to justify the inference of legal guilt from circumstantial evidence, the existence of the inculpatory facts must be absolutely...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 - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1862 - 376 pages
...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 - Criminal law - 1863 - 540 pages
...on the subject.* " In order to justify the inference of legal guilt from circum" stantial evidence, the existence of the inculpatory facts must " be absolutely incompatible with the innocence of the ac" cused, and incapable of explanation upon any other reason" able hypothesis than that of his guilt."... | |
 | John H. Colby - Criminal law - 1868 - 480 pages
...following language: "In order to justify the inference of legal guilt from circumstantial evidence, the existence of the inculpatory facts must be absolutely...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... | |
 | Law - 1868 - 894 pages
...found, or there is equivalent proof of death by evidence leading directly to that result. The evidence of the inculpatory facts must be absolutely incompatible...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... | |
 | Criminal law - 1872 - 954 pages
...to 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 - Criminal law - 1874 - 834 pages
...text writers, e that " in order to justify the inference of legal guilt from circumstantial evidence, the existence of the inculpatory facts must be absolutely...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... | |
 | Law - 1897 - 1116 pages
...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.... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 556 pages
...It reads as follows: "In order to justify the inference of legal guilt from circumstantial evidence the existence of the inculpatory facts must be absolutely...upon any other reasonable hypothesis than that of his guilt. This is the fundamental rule by which the relevancy and effect of circumstantial evidence... | |
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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 than... 
