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“The doubt, the benefit of which the accused is entitled, must be such as, rational thinking, sensible man may fairly and reasonably entertain, not the doubts of a vacillating mind that has not the moral courage to decide but shelters itself, in a vain and idle skepticism. There must be doubt which a man may honestly and conscientiously entertain.”

  1. Cockburn

  2. Lord Halsbury

  3. Lord Black

  4. None of the above
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Cockburn, C.J. said, "the doubt, the benefit of which the accused is entitled, must be such as rational thinking sensible man may fairly and reasonably entertain, not the doubts of a vacillating mind that has not the moral courage to decide but shelters itself, in a vain and idle skepticism.

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