 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1907
...when the railway company instituted the prosecution complained of, it had knowledge of such a state of facts and circumstances as would excite the belief in a reasonable mind, acting on such facts and circumstances, that the plaintiff was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted.... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - 1914
...relating to malicious prosecution, by probable cause is meant the existence of such facts as would excite belief in a reasonable mind, acting on the facts,...prosecutor, that the person charged was guilty of the offense for which he was prosecuted. Dempsey v. State, 27 Tex. Cr. App. 269, 11 SW 372. Construction... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1912
...cause for believing in the truth of said charges. "Reasonable and probable cause is the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief in a reasonable mind, acting on the information thereof, relied upon by the defendants, that the plaintiff was guilty of the offenses charged... | |
 | 1913
...appear that the prosecution was without probable cause. By probable cause Is meant "the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief...prosecutor, that the person charged was guilty of the offense for which he was prosecuted. * * • It is not necessary that the facts upon which the prosecutor... | |
 | 1913
...Chile, Moore, International Arbitrations, Vol. 4, p. 3255, 3260 : " Probable cause is the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief...prosecutor, that the person charged was guilty of the offense." In dismissing the claim of 'William Collier v. Mexico, Moore, International Arbitrations,... | |
 | Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth - 1914
...did believe, the defendant therein to be guilty. ^Probable cause has been denned as "the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief...person charged was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted."11^ This definition has met with very general approval. It is entirely satisfactory, with... | |
 | William Pinckney Fishback, Arnold Bennett Hall - 1915 - 515 σελίδες
...evidence of malice. § 73. Want of probable cause. — Probable cause is the apparent existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief in a reasonable mind that the person charged is guilty. It is essential that the prosecutor shall have entertained an honest... | |
 | William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich - 1917
...offense with which he is charged ;" 20 as "the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite belief in a reasonable mind, acting on the facts within...prosecutor, that the person charged was guilty of the offense for which he was prosecuted," г and as "such facts ana circumstances as, when communicated... | |
 | 1917
...circumstances known to him at the time were not such as would justify the belief of a reasonable man that the person charged was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted, or, in other words, the fact that the court's action makes a prima facie case that there was no cause... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1918
...circumstances known to him at the time were not such as would justify the belief of a reasonable man that the person charged was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted. Or, in other words, the fact that the court's action makes a prima-facie case that there was no cause,... | |
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the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief, in a reasonable mind, acting on the facts within the knowledge of the prosecutor, that the person charged was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted. 
