circumstantial evidence

How To Use circumstantial evidence In A Sentence

• The criminal inquiry relies on circumstantial evidence and does not solve the riddle of MH370. Times, Sunday Times
• A superintendent told the court that no body or weapon had been found, but that there was an overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence.
• You can't convict a man of a crime on circumstantial evidence alone.
• Since then more and more circumstantial evidence, much of it detailed and plausible, has been discovered as more alleged victims have come forward. Times, Sunday Times
• The aetiology remains unknown, but much circumstantial evidence suggests that immunological mechanisms are involved in the pathogenesis.
• Despite the absence of precise measures, there are a few types of circumstantial evidence that suggest legislative weakness.
• There was a mass of circumstantial evidence linking Watson to the murder.
• Circumstantial evidence, I know, but evidence that strongly suggests that the engineer was clobbered by a heavy metallic instrument.
• He had compiled a file of largely circumstantial evidence.
• If there are any who imagine, that positive and direct evidence is absolutely necessary to conviction, they are much mistaken; it is a mistake, I believe, very common with those who commit offences: they fancy that they are secure because they are not seen at the moment; but you may prove their guilt as conclusively, perhaps even more satisfactorily, by _circumstantial evidence_, as by any _direct evidence_ that can possibly be given. The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of