You see a man discharge a gun at another : you see the flash, you hear the report, you see the person fall a lifeless corpse ; and you infer, from all these circumstances, that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused... Medical Essays, 1842-1882 - Page 118by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 445 pagesFull view - About this book
| Methodist Church - 1880 - 820 pages
...see a man fall dead, and you infer from all these circumstances that there was a ball discharged from the gun which entered his body and caused his death,...only inferential ; in other words, circumstantial. The judge might have gone further, for even in so plain a case of irresistible inference of fact, we... | |
| John White Webster, James Winchell Stone - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1850 - 340 pages
...lifeless corpse ; and you infer, from all these circumstances, that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death,...through the air, and enter the body of the slain ; and even testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential, or, in other words, circumstantial.... | |
| John White Webster, George Bemis - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1850 - 660 pages
...lifeless corpse and you infer, from all these circumstances, that there was i ball discharged from the gun which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cans of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave the gur. pass through the air, and enter... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - Homeopathy - 1861 - 450 pages
...lifeless corpse ; and you infer, from all these circumstances, that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death,...is, therefore, only inferential, — in other words, circum* Am. Journ. Med. Sciences, Feb. 1837, p. 299. stantial. It is possible that no ball was in the... | |
| Francis Wharton - Criminal law - 1874 - 834 pages
...circumstances that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his 674 death, because such is the usual and natural cause...slain : and your testimony to the fact of killing is thereby only inferential — in other words, circumstantial. It is possible that no ball was in the... | |
| Medicine - 1875 - 980 pages
...lifeless corpse, and you infer, from all these circumstances, that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death,...through the air, and enter the body of the slain ; and even testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential, or, in other words, circumstantial.... | |
| Methodist Church - 1880 - 806 pages
...a man fall dead, and you infer 'from all 'these circumstances that there was a ball discharged from the .gun which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cause of sucli an effect. But you did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through the air, and enter the body... | |
| Ohio State Medical Society - Medicine - 1895 - 502 pages
...a lifeless corpse, and you infer from all these circumstances that there was a ball discharged from the gun which entered his body and caused his death,...your testimony to the fact of killing is therefore inferential, in other words circumstantial. It is possible there was no ball in the gun, and we infer... | |
| Medicine - 1895 - 900 pages
...a lifeless corpse, and you infer from all these circumstances that there was a ball discharged from the gun which entered his body and caused his death...the usual and natural cause of such an effect. But yon did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through the air, and enter the body of the slain; and... | |
| 1903 - 918 pages
...a lifeless corpse, and you infer, from all the circumstances, that there was a ball discharged from the gun which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural course of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through the air, and enter... | |
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