Purkey v. State

The Court charged the jury in this case, that the State need not show the parties are guilty, beyond all reasonable doubt. This is assigned as error upon the trial of a misdemeanor. In the same connection, however, the Coui’t admonished the jury that .the evidence must show the guilt of the defendants to their reasonable satisfaction; that their best judgments must be that the defendants are guilty, so that the mind may rest easy in the conclusion of guilt. With this qualification, we can not reverse the judgment in an offense of this grade for the error in the first proposition. It 'can not…