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Excerpt from The Following Sheets Are From the Seventh Edition of Dr. Francis Wharton's Treatise on Criminal Law, Now in the Press: VIII. Circumstantial Evidence
To the same effect is the language of Chief Justice Whitman, of Maine. Circumstantial evidence, he said, is often stronger and more satisfac tory than direct, because it is not lia ble to delusion or fraud. It was not he said, that in the vast number of persons who had suffered the penalties of the law, some should have suffered wrongfully. People v. Thorne, 6 Law Reporter, 54.
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