Regina -v- Exall (1866) 4 F & F 922
1866
Pollock CB
Evidence
Circumstantial evidence might be compared to a rope comprised of several cords: “One strand of the cord might be insufficient to sustain the weight, but three stranded together may be quite of sufficient strength. Thus it may be in circumstantial evidence – there may be a combination of circumstances, no one of which would raise a reasonable conviction, or more than a mere suspicion: but the whole taken together, may create a strong conclusion of guilt, that is, with as much certainty as human affairs can require or admit of.”