Kimball v. State

Plaintiff in error was indicted for murder in the first degree and convicted of murder in the second degree with sentence to life imprisonment. On writ of error it is argued that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict and that the court erred in giving the following charge:

“By the term ‘reasonable doubt’ is not meant a mere possible or speculative doubt, but one conformable to reason; a doubt which would satisfy a reasonable person. It is that state of the case which, after the comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jurors in that condition that…