O'Loughlin v. People

Convinced, as I am, that a question is here involved more vital to this state than the final outcome of a single case, and more momentous to its citizens than the guilt of an individual, I feel constrained to dissent and state my reasons therefor. In examining that question two fundamental facts must be borne in mind:

First, that all evidence of defendant’s guilt is circumstantial. Given all material facts, with their relationship correctly deduced, this is not only the strongest evidence known, it is infallible. Its inherent weakness, in many cases, is its incompleteness and the difficulty of…