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Incriminating circumstance

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

One which tends to show that a crime has been committed or that some particular person committed it. See 51 Neb. 301, 70 N. W. 984.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A fact or circumstance, collateral to the fact of the commission of a crime, which tends to show either that such a crime bas been committed or that some particniar person committed it. Davis v. Slate, 51 Neb. 301, 70 N. W. 984.

Defined under Incriminate in Black's Law Dictionary.