"evidence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In these trials he controversially accepted spectral evidence (based on supposed demonic visions).
- The trials began, during which "spectral evidence" - testimony about purported apparitions involving the accused - played a major part.
- The episode ended some nine months after it began, when a group of ministers publicly criticized the use of "spectral evidence," and the court was dissolved.
- Mercy Lewis was a major contributor of spectral evidence in the examination of Elizabeth Howe.
- However, they did bring forth spectral evidence with the story of their daughter.
- June 15: Cotton Mather writes a letter requesting the court not use spectral evidence as a standard and urging that the trials be speedy.
- The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction.
- The Massachusetts House of Representatives finally passed a bill disallowing spectral evidence.
- Such so-called "spectral evidence" was allowed into the trial to show that Satan was afflicting others in the community at the behest of the accused.
- Accordingly, when the trials resumed in 1693 in the regular Massachusetts courts, the judges no longer accepted spectral evidence.
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