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
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1008 pages
...satisfactorily shown he is entitled to an acquittal. . . . 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 proven guilty." Considering all of the instructions... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 994 pages
...by you in your consideration of this case." And again, "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 proven guilty." There were other instructions... | |
| Larry Laudan - Philosophy - 2006 - 235 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... | |
| Medicine - 1885 - 748 pages
...guilty." Judge SH Dwinell, in his charge to the jury in the case of the People vs. Laura D. Fair, says: " All the presumptions of law, independent of evidence, are in favor of innocence, and every person is presumed to be innocent of crime until he is proven to be guilty." But the law... | |
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