Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/12/1940

Commonwealth v. O'Brien

Citations

305 Mass. 393
26 N.E.2d 235
1940 Mass. LEXIS 820

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defendant’s access to vault shared by others not enough to show he took missing money
“When the evidence tends equally to sustain either of two inconsistent propositions, neither of them can be said to have been established by legitimate proof”
“When the evidence tends equally to sustain either of two inconsistent propositions, neither of them can be said to have been established by legitimate proof”
“if, upon all the evidence, the question of the guilt of the defendant is left to conjecture or surmise and has no solid foundation in established facts, a verdict of guilty cannot stand”
“[I]f, upon all the evidence, the question of the guilt of the defendant is left to conjecture or surmise and has no solid foundation in established facts, a verdict of guilty cannot stand”

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Judges: Cox

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