 | 1907 - Broj stranica: 1210
...request to the jury, as follows : "I ask your honor to charge the jury that the character of the accused may be such as to create a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury, and lead them to believe, in view of the improbability of a person of such character being guilty,... | |
 | Frederick Sackett, Martin L. Newell - 1888 - Broj stranica: 836
...himself, either for the purpose of committing suicide, or as a medicine, then this is sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury as to the guilt of the defendant, and they should render a verdict of not guilty. § 28. Donbt as to Whirh of Two or More... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1892 - Broj stranica: 736
...GREEN, JR., Judge. House &• Cantrell for appellant. 1. If the evidence as to an alibi was sufficient to create a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury, as to whether defendant was present, it was^the'duty of the jury, to acquit, and the jury should have been... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje - 1889 - Broj stranica: 760
...mere evidentiary facts, unless material to the issue.19 Tim prisoner is entitled to the benefit of a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury as to the grade of the crime, in •which event he should only be convicted of the lesser grade."4 Some cases... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1891 - Broj stranica: 906
...the accused. "We do not think the evidence in this case is sufficiently strong to leave no doubt upon the minds of the jury as to the guilt of the accused. To our minds the evidence affords merely a supposition as to the guilt of the accused, there being... | |
 | Washington (State). Supreme Court, Eugene Glenroy Kreider - 1891 - Broj stranica: 704
...1889.] Opinion of the Court— BITBKE, CJ sible in a criminal case; and, if it is sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury as to the guilt of the accused, it is their duty to acquit. Appeal from District Court. Spokane County. Turner, Forster & Turner, for... | |
 | 1891 - Broj stranica: 630
...reasonable doubt, of the defendant's guilt. It necessarily follows that if the evidence is such as to leave a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury as to the existence of any necessary ingredient of the crime charged, they should give the defendant the benefit... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1892 - Broj stranica: 636
...rule seems to be that if the prisoner proves facts, whether by way of alibi or otherwise, which raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury as to the truth of the case of the prosecution, they should acquit. Thus, in a recent case in Pennsylvania, the... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1892 - Broj stranica: 1050
...reasonable doubt, of the defendant's guilt. It necessarily follows, that if the evidence is such as to leave a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury as to the existence of any necessary ingredieut of the crime charged, they should give the defendant the benefit... | |
 | Frank Sumner Rice - 1894 - Broj stranica: 1062
...are required to be proved; and if the matters relied on be supported by such proof as would produce a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury as to the guilt of the prisoner, when the whole evidence concerning the transaction comes to be considered by the jury, the... | |
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Thereafter the defendant's counsel requested the court to charge: "That the character of the defendant may be such as to create a reasonable doubt In the minds of the jury... 
