The exact nature of his " dissipations " is not clear, but in 1994 Theo Aronson favoured the theory on " admittedly circumstantial " evidence that the " unspecified ' dissipations ' were predominantly homosexual ".

On its own, it is the nature of circumstantial evidence for more than one explanation to still be possible.

These types of evidence may strongly point to a certain conclusion when taken into consideration with other facts, but if not directly witnessed by someone when the crime was committed, they are still considered to be circumstantial in nature.

This opened a new vision of tragically circumstantial nature.

The anthropologist Peter N. Jones thinks this evidence to be of a circumstantial nature, but this is a distinctly minority opinion among specialists in Numic.

:: character evidence's admissibility as circumstantial evidence is influenced by the case's civil or criminal nature

* Another type of criticism is that the very notion of surplus product is purely relative and circumstantial, or even subjective, because any person can regard something as a ' surplus ' if he has command or effective control over it, and is in a position where he can use it in whatever manner he thinks appropriate – even although others would not regard it as " surplus " at all.

Grant later claimed that he had specified that Wallace take the " lower " path ( River Road ), although circumstantial evidence suggests that Grant had forgotten that more than one path existed.

Juve later arrested Gurn and, at his trial, brought forward a convincing argument that Gurn and Fantômas were one and the same, though the evidence was too circumstantial to make a real case.

The one belated statement that the founder of the Knights Templars came from " Payns near Troyes " has some circumstantial confirmation.

This imbalance can arise from one or more medical conditions and / or circumstantial situations, which can include:

" Taking all things into consideration, it seems that we must give the credit of erecting this, the world's most wonderful statue, to Khafre, but always with this reservation: that there is not one single contemporary inscription which connects the Sphinx with Khafre ; so, sound as it may appear, we must treat the evidence as circumstantial, until such time as a lucky turn of the spade of the excavator will reveal to the world a definite reference to the erection of the Sphinx.

Inference from one piece of circumstantial evidence may not guarantee accuracy.

In order to employ this formula to actual complex situations, implicit or explicit conditions need to be accepted to be circumstantial, since the list of counterfactually acceptable causes would otherwise be impractically long ( e. g. the Earth's continued existence could be said to be the ( necessary ) cause of one drinking one's coffee ).

The accuracy required along side the conditioning requirements ( similar to the knuckles for traditional punching ) put it as a circumstantial technique and not as a standard one.

No one knows when or where cricket began but there is a body of evidence, much of it circumstantial, that strongly suggests the game was devised during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex.

Coffin was sent to trial in July 1954 and though the evidence against him was mostly circumstantial, he was convicted with one count of murder ( as the penal code prohibited multiple convictions of murder in the same trial ).

While the American attempts to frame the fetus as the source of the couple's discontent with life and one another, the tone and pattern of dialogue indicate that there may be deeper problems with the relationship than the purely circumstantial.

He further instructed the jury that the corpus delicti could be established beyond a reasonable doubt by circumstantial evidence alone .” The case against Webster was one of the first capital cases to be won by the prosecution without absolute evidence that the victim had been murdered.

The Worthington family had resided in Connecticut ever since Ralph Worthington's great-great-great grandfather, Nicholas Worthington, Esq., a Royalist during the English Civil War, had fled England in 1649 ( when his king Charles I had been beheaded and the victorious Oliver Cromwell had confiscated his family lands ) to settle in Saybrook, Connecticut, as one of the colony's founders. There is only circumstantial evidence that Nicholas held lands in England as he was not the head of the Worthington family in Lancashire, England.

Lady Antonia Fraser ( Charles II, page 82 ) points out that such a match would have taken one of " the last aces " Charles had, his " marriageability " to some foreign princess which, conceivably, could have brought him aid in regaining his throne. On the other hand, Monmouth's biographer J. N. P. Watson (" Captain-General and Rebel Chief ", 127 ) has argued there is a substantial amount of circumstantial evidence to support the marriage between Lucy Walters and Charles, including letters from Charles's sister ( a confidante of Lucy Walters ) in the 1640s which refer to Charles's " wife ".

In an important sense, however, all evidence is merely circumstantial because no evidence can prove a fact in the absence of one or more inferences.

E. V. Montan ( Stockholm, 1878 ), is one of the most trustworthy and circumstantial documents relating to the Gustavian era of Swedish history.

Although the Post Boy couldn ’ t identify Snook due to the darkness at the time of the robbery, one of the stolen bank notes was traced back to Snook ’ s possession and a chain of circumstantial evidence led to a guilty verdict at his trial in March 1802.

Where digital evidence does not meet one of the other exceptions but has " equivalent circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness " that hearsay seeks to protect against, a court may apply the catch-all.

Although no evidence has yet surfaced to reliably link Saffron to Nielsen's disappearance, there are significant circumstantial connections — Saffron owned the Carousel club, where Nielsen was last seen, Saffron associate ( and Carousel manager ) Jim Anderson reportedly borrowed large sums from Frank Theeman, and Alan Saffron's 2008 book about his father claims that Theeman was one of several prominent Sydney business identities to whom Saffron lent money through a loan sharking operation, a claim which links to earlier reports that Theeman had tried to borrow money from Saffron to cover his ' loans ' to Jim Anderson.

He may have studied with Palestrina around this time, though the evidence is circumstantial ; certainly he was influenced by the Italian's style.

In practice, circumstantial evidence can have an advantage over direct evidence in that it can come from multiple sources that check and reinforce each other.

Do not disguise or gloss over the slightest particular, for I shall not be satisfied without a full, true, and circumstantial recital.

Although he produced an abundance of circumstantial evidence, his theory met with little acceptance for two reasons: ( 1 ) no mechanism for continental drift was known, and ( 2 ) there was no way to reconstruct the movements of the continents over time.

Shaw presided over several cases that would help shape American law and jurisprudence including the case of Washington Goode, a black seaman convicted on circumstantial evidence of murdering a fellow black mariner in 1849 Boston.

Based on archaeological, ethnographic, and circumstantial evidence, it can be assumed that Singers were once distributed over the whole of New Guinea and later restricted to the upper mountains.

While there is natural uncertainty over whether all these criteria fit all alleged victims of SHC, the circumstances are broadly supported by circumstantial evidence in the best cases for the SHC hypothesis.

There have been sightings of the three men over the years which provides circumstantial evidence that they might have survived.

The 2004 murder trial of Scott Peterson was another high-profile conviction based heavily on circumstantial evidence.

) and other circumstantial evidence is likewise rejected in hudud cases in favor of eyewitnesses, a practice which can cause severe difficulties for women plaintiffs in rape cases.

Generational development can be both dependent upon cultural as well as circumstantial consequences.

However, positioned immediately before the large portrait of King Charles I and his family it provides further circumstantial evidence that Lord Burlington may have received an earlier secret Garter from the Stuart Kings in exile ( in this painting King Charles I can be seen wearing the blue sash of the Garter with a " Lesser " George attached ).

Testimony can be direct evidence or it can be circumstantial.

Thus strong circumstantial evidence can be a more reliable basis on which to determine a verdict.

As a general rule, any competent evidence, either direct or circumstantial, can be resorted to, and all the relevant circumstances surrounding the transaction may be shown, provided they are not too remote, including threats, prior or subsequent defamations, subsequent statements of the defendant, circumstances indicating the existence of rivalry, ill will, or hostility between the parties, facts tending to show a reckless disregard of the plaintiff's rights ..."

The charge of " wishful thinking " itself can be a form of circumstantial ad hominem ( personal ) argument.

Some circumstantial evidence suggests tight underwear and other practices that raise testicular temperature for prolonged periods can be associated with lower sperm counts.

Through circumstantial evidence Melisende can probably be identified as the recipient.

It can be considered as a special case of the ad hominem circumstantial argument.

In that only body parts and some teeth had been found, Shaw stated, “ This case is to be proved, if proved at all, by circumstantial evidence ; because it is not suggested that any direct evidence can be given, or that any witness can be called to give direct testimony upon the main fact of the killing.

Promiscuous behaviour or the pursuit of casual sex can occur in varying degrees, or be circumstantial, but can also be motivated by some kind of sexual addiction or hypersexuality in which the opportunist actively “ preys ” on people who are most likely to satisfy his sexual desires, or are easily available for sexual activity (" an easy lay ").