Principle

EVIDENCE LAW – Circumstantial Evidence – Conviction on Circumstantial Evidence

Area of law
EVIDENCE LAW
Court
Supreme Court

Conviction on circumstantial evidence requires that the evidence be cogent, complete, unequivocal, and compellingly lead to the conclusion that the accused and no one else committed the offence. The circumstances must be inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis of innocence. The evidence must exclude other possible…

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