State v. Green

The respondent was convicted on March 15, 1966 in Windsor County Court after trial by jury on the charge of statutory 'rape.

The court instructed the jury in part as follows:

“Now the law does not require that each particular incriminating fact which may aid you in determining if the accused is guilty should be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. A doubt which will justify an acquittal is not a doubt of any particular fact, but a doubt on all the evidence that he is guilty.”

The respondent excepted to this portion of the charge in the following language:

“We would except to that portion of the…