Smith, Varnham and Timms, 103, White, 61, 107. 237. Squires and Wells, 218. Wescombe, 79. Whalley, 123. Whittall, 130. Wilson, 67. Standsfield, 34. Steptoe, 66. Stewart, 206. Sunderland, 44. Swan and Jeffreys, 81, 95. Wood, 132. Wood, alias Howe, 334. Wood and Brown, 31, 91. Woodburne and Coke, 42. Wright, 204. THE PRINCIPLES OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. CHAPTER I. EVIDENCE IN GENERAL. SECTION 1. THE NATURE OF EVIDENCE. Ir will greatly conduce to the formation of clear and correct notions on the subject of Circumstantial Evidence, to take a brief introductory view of the nature of evidence in general, of some of its various kinds, and of the nature of the assurance which each of them is calculated to produce. The great object of all intellectual research is the discovery of TRUTH, which may be defined to be the conformity of words, ideas, and relations with the nature and reality of events and things. The JUDGMENT is that faculty of the mind which is principally concerned in the investigation and acquisi |