Cosco v. State

The defendant, Louis D. Cosco, was tried and convicted of the crime of aggravated assault and battery on a fellow inmate at the Wyoming State Penitentiary. Several assignments of error are made on behalf of Cosco, by his court-appointed attorney.

An instruction objected to states:

“The rule which clothes every person accused of crime with the presumption of innocence, imposes upon the State the burden of establishing his guilt, beyond a reasonable doubt. To establish the guilt of the defendant beyond all reasonable doubt, is not meant that such guilt shall be established to an absolute…