Innocence
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The absence of guilt See Presumption. An act authorizing one alleging that he had been unjustly convicted -of crime to present a claim for damages to the state board of claims was passed in New York In 1905.
See Roberts v. State, 160 N. Y. 217, 64 N. E. 678.
Provisions for the compensation of innocent persons who have been imprisoned exist in many European states.
Including Germany, Hungary, Austria, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Portugal and Spain and in Mexico, See 3 Journ. Cr. L. & Criminology 684.