 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.  Pacific Islands Pilot - Page 1961897Full view - About this book
 | John White Webster, George Bemis - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1850 - 730 pages
...conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of 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... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 796 pages
...of the truth of the charge made against the 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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 702 pages
...conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of 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... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1853 - 636 pages
...conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of 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... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1861 - 822 pages
...pronounced against him. The testimony being 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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 704 pages
...conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1164 pages
...conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 884 pages
...conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1134 pages
...conviction to a moral certainty of the truth of 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 of the offense charged until he is proved to be guilty.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1140 pages
...if 96, 97; Dec. Dig. { 67.*] 12. CRIMINAL LAW (§ 561*)— PBESUMPTIONS— REASONABLE DOUBT. Since all the presumptions of law independent of evidence are in favor of innocence, and every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty, the burden is on the state to establish... | |
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