All we know is, that our minds are so constituted that we can not resist the force ofcircumstantial evidence if we suffer our faculties to act as reason has taught them.
In circumstantial evidence a fact may be established by the most direct and satisfactory proofs, and yet it may have no relation to other facts with which you attempt to associate it.
It shows the danger of circumstantial evidence,--and yet without it one never could get at any murder.
He said so much because he would not wish that this case should be quoted hereafter as showing the possible danger of circumstantial evidence.
The finger of suspicion would be pointed at him, and a clever lawyer would wind around him a chain of circumstantial evidence so firm and strong that it would be impossible for him to break through it.
It supplied, not one, but several new links in the chain of circumstantial evidence.
Still, the longer he thought the heavier seemed to grow the weight of circumstantial evidence.
His absence lays him open to suspicion, but it is altogether a case of circumstantial evidence.
So now, and all the more because he was a little out of sorts, the suggestions of this story began to take the form in his mind of an imaginary case of circumstantial evidence of which he was the victim.
It was a tale of circumstantial evidence, and about how it very nearly hung an innocent man for a murder which he had no thought of committing.
It struck Joseph rather forcibly that this victim of circumstantial evidence was as respectable and inoffensive a person as himself, and probably had never any more thought of being in danger from the law.
But where conviction rested on circumstantial evidence only, or assumed guilt was not borne out by actual confession, imprisonment for life in chains was substituted, and it was a terrible penalty.
Circumstantial evidence is never held sufficient to justify the extreme penalty, and sentence of death cannot be passed unless the culprit has confessed his crime.
Richard remembered how he himself had suffered through the overwhelming weight of circumstantial evidence; and this thought rendered him slow to put faith in the guilt of others.
Yes—to him I owed the development of my innocence—the unravelling of that terrible web of circumstantial evidence in which I was entangled.
A man is regarded as innocent so long as it is impossible to connect to him the last link in a long chain of circumstantial evidence.
Scientific testimony is another form of the so-called "circumstantial evidence," and as such is sometimes looked upon with suspicion.
But you have all too much good sense and experience not to know that a long chain of circumstantial evidence, perfect and unbroken as this seems to me to be, is more strong, more conclusive than even direct evidence.
I will break through this chain of circumstantial evidence; I will show that it cannot affect the prisoner, that it is not applicable to him.
Circumstantial evidence, therefore, is founded on experience and observed facts and coincidences, establishing a connection between the known and proved facts and the fact sought to be proved.
In a question of fact, which turns on circumstantial evidence, there may be a number of them.
He was asked questions similar to the following: Is it not probable that your belief in the prisoner's guilt is derived from hearsay or circumstantial evidence?
Under English and American law a crime may be proven by any number of witnesses, each of whom testifies to a separate fact which constitutes a link in the chain of circumstantial evidence.
I am not going to inflict on the reader a detailed account of this remarkable trial, which turned, as barristers would say, on a beautiful point of circumstantial evidence.
Next day James Harvey, a victim of circumstantial evidence, and of a barbarous criminal code, perished on the scaffold.
In this case the body has not been found and there is no direct proof of criminal agency on the part of the prisoner, although the chain of circumstantial evidence is complete and irresistible in the highest degree.
The People, and binding upon this Court, that both components of the corpus delicti shall not be established by circumstantial evidence.
Overwhelming conviction rarely results from merely circumstantial evidence, but a combination of accusing circumstances certainly pointed to the prisoner; and following their guidance, I am responsible for her arrest and detention for trial.
In attempting to cast a lance against the shield of circumstantial evidence, his weapon rebounded, recoiled upon his fine spun crystal and shivered it.
Certainly the chain of circumstantial evidence, from veracious facts, seemed complete; but lo!
In assailing the validity of circumstantial evidence, has he not cut his bridges, burned his ships behind him?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circumstantial evidence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
