Probable cause is such a state of facts in the mind of the prosecutor, as would lead a man of ordinary caution and prudence to believe or entertain an honest and strong suspicion, that the person arrested is guilty. Rapports Judiciaires de Québec - Page 1871880Full view - About this book
| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 774 pages
...warrant a prudent man in the belief that the party (the plaintiff in this case) is guilty, or such state of facts as would lead a man of ordinary caution and prudence to entertain a belief of guilt." (11.) "The jury can not find that the defendant, in prosecuting plaintiff... | |
| United States. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue - Taxation - 1906 - 252 pages
...case the opinion quotes from Ulmer »:. Leland (1 Me., 135) the following upon the same subject: " Such a state of facts as would lead a man of ordinary caution to believe or to entertain an honest and strong suspicion that the person is guilty." If the defendants... | |
| Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 728 pages
...544, 16 L. Ed. 765. Mr. Sutherland defines it as "such a state of facts in the mind of the prosecutor as would lead a man of ordinary caution and prudence to believe, or to entertain an honest and strong suspicion, that the facts essential to the prosecution exist":... | |
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