 | Oscar Tully Shuck - California - 1888 - 338 pages
...proved by credible testimony or not. What then, is the meaning of the term "probable cause?" We answer, a reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves to warrant a reasonable, cautious and prudent man in the belief that the accused is guilty of the offence with which... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Actions and defenses - 1890 - 924 pages
...caution and prudence to believe and entertain an honest and strong suspicion that the man is guilty";1 "a reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances...warrant a cautious man in the belief that the person accused is guilty of the offense with which he is charged." 2 That is to say, to constitute probable... | |
 | John Townshend - Libel and slander - 1890 - 972 pages
...that, the prosecutor must believe in his guilt, and must have reasonable ground for such belief? * Probable cause is " a reasonable ground of suspicion,...strong in themselves to warrant a cautious man in his belief that the person accused is guilty of the offense with which he is charged." * " Such a state... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1074 pages
...criminal charge against another,] is not sufficient to protect the defendant from liability. There must be a reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficiently strong, in themselves, to warrant :i cautious man in the belief that the plaintiff was guilty of the crime with which he was charged,... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 716 pages
...Supreme Court of this State, in an early case (Ross v. Inncs, 35 III. 487), defined probable cause to be "a reasonable ground of suspicion, supported by circumstances...warrant a cautious man in the belief that the person accused is guilty of the offense charged." This definition was adopted in Chapman v. Cawrey, 50 111512;... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Extradition - 1891 - 874 pages
...233 ; Whart. Cr. PI. & Pr. § 73. * 7 Blatchf. 345. » 1 Burr's Trial, 11. « 3 Wash. CC 81. picion, supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in...warrant a cautious man in the belief, that the person accused is guilty of the offence with which he is charged. " 1 This is a very different thing from... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1891 - 758 pages
...of BFP, the agent "of defendant, /^A/that, if from the evidence the agent had reasonable ground for suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficiently...themselves to warrant a cautious man in the belief that the accused was guilty of the offense, and that the agent believed that he was guilty, then there was probable... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 936 pages
...Reasonable or probable cause, within the meaning of the law, may be defined as a reasonable amount of suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficiently...strong in themselves, to warrant a cautious man in believing that the accused is guilty. But mere suspicion alone is not sufficient." Allendorph v. Ogden.... | |
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Probable cause" has been defined as a reasonable ground of suspicion supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves to warrant a cautious man in the belief that the person accused is guilty of the offense with which he is charged. 
