| John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 764 էջ
...subject of inquiry. By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined ; the only... | |
| Joseph Goodeve - 1862 - 776 էջ
...subject of enquiry. By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined ; the only... | |
| John McNab (Barrister-at-law.) - 1865 - 672 էջ
...the truth of which is submitted to judicial investigation.* Satisfactory or sufficient evidence is that amount of proof •which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced! mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined : the only... | |
| California - 1872 - 698 էջ
...See note to Sec. 1826, ante. Satisfactory evidence is sometimes called sufficient evidence, and * h that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined. The only... | |
| Nevada. Supreme Court - 1877 - 518 էջ
...Mr. Greenleaf : "By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond reasonable doubt. Tho circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined; the only... | |
| 1893 - 2192 էջ
...§2, is: "By 'satisfactory evidence,' which is sometimes called 'sufficient evidence,' is intruded that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. The circumstances which will amount to this decree of proof can never be previously defined. The only... | |
| Georgia Public Service Commission - 1880 - 652 էջ
...2 of vol. 1: 'By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. • * Question« respecting the competency and adniissibllity of evidence »re entirely distinct from... | |
| Eugene Crowell - 1881 - 554 էջ
...to be proved. " By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt." And again : "While unbounded credulity is the attribute of weak minds, which seldom think or reason... | |
| 1887 - 1038 էջ
...Scribner, 57 Me. 495. By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt. 1 Greenl. Ev. 8 2, p. 4; 1 Starkie, Ev. 514; Young v. Edwards, 72 Pa. 267. Convinced is defined "to... | |
| Missouri. Courts of Appeals - 1888 - 782 էջ
...559; Beach v. Clark, 51 Conn. 200; Ruff®. Jarrett, 94 111. 475. By satisfactory evidence, " is meant that amount of proof which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind beyond reasonable doubt." 1 Greenl. on Evid. [14 Ed.] sec. 2 ; Whitney ». Clifford, 67 Wis. 156. Here the jury are told that... | |
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