In a criminal case in which the evidence points to guilt while the judge's private knowledge assures him of the innocence of the accused, the judge must not condemn, if there is any legal way to avoid it.
In a criminal case or a case in which punishment is inflicted, if the guilt of the accused is doubtful, the sentence should be for acquittal; for no one should be condemned unless his guilt is morally certain (see 1728 sqq.
It is probable that an oath was never administered to a jury in England, either in a civil or criminal case, to try it according to law.
I claim that it is a power that is not given to any Court in a criminal case.
That is a direction no Court has power to make in a criminal case.
But, gentlemen of the jury, as logical as all this is, when applied to a civil suit, it becomes but the most specious reasoning when introduced into a criminal case, such as this.
This is the whole account given of the charge in a criminal case.
It is probable that an oath was never administered to a jury in England, either in a civil or criminal case, to try it according to law.
In a criminal case in the United States, a man, addicted to drink, was given, when intoxicated, 2 drachms of croton oil in a glass of whisky.
In a criminal case related by Tardieu and Roussin, a large dose of zinc sulphate, put into soup, caused the death of an adult woman of sixty years of age in about thirty hours.
A good beginning" in a criminal case means a beginning before the right judge, the proper jury, and at a time when that vague but important influence known as public opinion augurs success.
Every judge in a criminal case is required to charge the jury in form or substance somewhat as follows: "The defendant is presumed to be innocent until that presumption is removed by competent evidence".
These anecdotes are, perhaps, what judges would call obiter dicta, yet the coroner's court has more than once been utilized as a field in the actual preparation of a criminal case.
It does not appear that it was that bank note, and this, I submit, is no evidence in a criminal case.
How far the perversity of the inanimate can lead I saw in a criminal case in which a big isolated hay-stack was set on fire.
The aim is only to test the practicality of this method in the routine of a criminal case, and to see if it is not, indeed, the only one by which to attain complete and indubitable results.
Yet again, we hear of insignificant, hardly controllable habits that become accidentally significant in a criminal case.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "criminal case" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
