Purcell v. Maddox

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The presumption of innocence is not a mere form, but a substantial part of the law.”
• “The presumption of innocence is not a mere form, but a substan- tial part of the law, that remains with the defendant from the beginning of the trial until a verdict is found.”
• explain- ing that “it devolves upon the prosecution to prove by evi- dence to the satisfaction of the trial jury beyond a reason- able doubt, that the defendant committed the crime charged in the indictment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).