 You see a man discharge a gun at another : you see the flash, you hear the report, you see the person fall a lifeless corpse ; and you infer, from all these circumstances, that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused...  Medical Essays, 1842-1882 - Page 118by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 445 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Trufant Foster - 1908 - 512 pages
...lifeless corpse, and you infer from all these circumstances that there has been a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death,...slain ; and your testimony to the fact of killing is thereby only inferential." * The inference as to intent would be even more subject to error. Direct... | |
 | Gilbert Holland Stewart - 1910 - 536 pages
...entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural effect from such a cause. But you did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through the air and enter the body of the slain; and even such testimony of an eye witness to the fact of the killing is therefore only inferential, or,... | |
 | Gilbert Holland Stewart - 1910 - 554 pages
...person fall a corpse, and you infer, from all these circumstances, that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural effect from such a cause. But you did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through the air and enter... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1912 - 1106 pages
...a lifeless corpse; and you infer from all these circumstances that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death,...an effect. But you did not see the ball leave the defendant." Stuckey v. St., 7 of the whole charge was equally Tex. App. 174, 179. This was like- prejudicial.... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1916 - 944 pages
...a lifeless corpse, and you infer from all these circumstances that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death,...the gun, pass through the air, and enter the body, . . . and your testimony to the fact of killing is thereby only inferential; in other words, circumstantial."... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1916 - 944 pages
...a lifeless corpse, and you infer from all these circumstances that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death,...the gun, pass through the air, and enter the body, . . . and your testimony to the fact of killing is thereby only inferential; in other words, circumstantial."... | |
 | 1893 - 1058 pages
...lifeless corpse, and you infer from all these cii'cuiusUiiK'es that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and material and natural cause of such an effect But yon did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2006 - 204 pages
...circumstances, that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death. . . . But you did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through the air, and enter the body of the slain; and \our testimony to the fart of killing is, therefore, only inferential, — in other words, circumstantial.... | |
 | 1903 - 946 pages
...a lifeless corpse, and you infer, from all the circumstances, that there was a ball discharged from the gun which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural course of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through the air, and enter... | |
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