"Circumstantial evidence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... here to tell the reason why I would not convict the meanest thief on circumstantial evidence. I would rather let a thousand go free than risk with one what I risked and shudder yet to think of. There had been some public excitement that summer about mad dogs, especially spitz-dogs. A good many persons had been bitten, and the authorities of Massachusetts, if I remember ...
— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis
... then carried off by two men; blood on the floor, the sill and the back fence; and the Judge had disappeared from the face of the earth. The case was clear, the jury retired, but quickly brought in a verdict of guilty, although at every point there was nothing but circumstantial evidence. ...
— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton
... fleck the size of a tear which their duller eyes had overlooked. It was plain to me that La Cote Male Taile had failed to see the mistress of the house. Often, how louder and clearer than any tongue, does dumb circumstantial evidence speak. ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... all up before the general the next day, but swore ourselves clear, all except Tim, who had the circumstantial evidence ...
— Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession • Benjamin Wood
... that if he should succeed in destroying his adversary,—so long as the act was not witnessed by their associates,—so long as there should be only circumstantial evidence against him,—he would not have much to fear from such judges as they. It was simply a question as to whether the deed could be done silently and in the darkness; and that question was ...
— The Ocean Waifs - A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea • Mayne Reid
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