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No one can doubt that presumptions may be made in criminal as well as in civil cases. It is constantly the practice to act upon them, and I apprehend that more than one half of the persons convicted of crimes are convicted on presumptive evidence.

— Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet Trial of Sir Francis Burdett (King v. Burdett) (1820)

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