Such reasonable suspicion of guilt as justifies a grand jury in finding a bill of indictment is sufficient in the one case, but such positive proof as would require the court to enter up judgment and award execution is absolutely necessary in the other.
Mann contrasts the legal standards required for criminal cases versus those for alleged slaves.
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