Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1867

Commonwealth v. Cotter

Commonwealth v. Cotter
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 15, 1867 · Bigelow
97 Mass. 336

Commonwealth v. Cotter

Opinion of the Court

Bigelow, C. J.

The effect of the prayer for instructions was that a jury ought not to convict a party on circumstantial evidence. Any such direction to the jury would have been contrary to elementary principles. There is nothing in the nature of a sale to require any different evidence in kind or degree to establish the fact from that which is necessary or sufficient to prove any other fact. Exceptions overruled.

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