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Newspaper

Court thereon; and the summing-up of the judge, finding of the jury, and judgment of the Court. No prosecution under this Act may be commenced without the sanction of the Attorney-general. Libel.--Under the (English) Libel Act, 1843

Circumstantial evidence

should accept that inference which favours the accused rather than an inference which goes in favour of the prosecution, Ram Das v. State of Maharashtra, (1977) 2 SCC 124: AIR 1977 SC 1164 (1166). Circumstantial evidence, which

closing argument

closing statement final argument summation summing-up NOTE: Rule 29.1 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure requires the prosecution to open the closing argument after the closing of the evidence. The defense replies, and the prosecution may

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prosecutor

prosecutor 1 : a person who institutes a prosecution (as by making an affidavit or complaint charging the defendant) 2 : a government attorney who presents the

Bread

the convicting justices to be published in some newspaper. S. 14 prohibits Sunday baking, and the consents for prosecution for Sunday trading generally, which are required by the (English) Sunday Observance Prosecution Act, 1871 (see SUNDAY), need

Brothel

Brothel [fr. bordel, Fr.], a habitation of prostitutes. To keep one is an offence at Common Law, the prosecution of which by indictment is specially encouraged by the (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c.

Material witness

witness is so essential or not would depend on whether he could speak to any part of the prosecution case or whether the evidence led disclosed that he was so situated that he would have been able

To enforce any right or supposed right

To enforce any right or supposed right, in order to attract the provisions of s. 149 the prosecution must establish that there was an unlawful assembly and that the crime was committed in prosecution of the

Jury

and receive indictments inquiring, upon their oaths, whether there be sufficient cause shown by the evidence of the prosecution to call upon the accused persons to answer before a petty jury. See GRAND JURY. A coroner's jury

verdict

the evidence is not sufficient to support a conviction when viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution : judgment of acquittal at judgment [motions for directed verdict are abolished and motions for judgment of acquittal

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