Circumstantial Evidence Meaning

Circumstantial Evidence

Circumstantial evidence is the evidence which came from circumstances. The circumstances those can help the investigation of law enforcers to use in court to convict the suspected criminal and convince the jury beyond reasonable doubt.

The circumstantial evidence is the collection of the event wherein that event tells whether how the crime was committed through circumstances and the circumstances evidence must support with witness that there were circumstances happened that time wherein the course of the act was seen by the witness.

A type of evidence which other than corpus delicti evidence that has capacity to convict the creator of the crime. The law enforcers before charging of an offense to the allegedly criminal should prove first the corpus delicti, next is the corpus delicti evidence, collect the witness and prove to the court whether who was the creator of the crime for warrant of arrest.

The circumstances evidence has no limitation whether where to use or what types of acts that proves the commission of the offense or the crime. Even that crime was crimes against person, crimes against property, crimes against nature and more still the circumstances evidence is helpful to prove the real creator of misdeed.

In crimes against person in homicide case; there was might possible that the act was caught in the act and other crimes, if not; the circumstances with this case can be collect to prove the responsible of the crime for justice.

In murder case; the witness should collect for circumstances evidence doesn’t confuse the difference of circumstantial evidence to the associative evidence. The plan and steps also same with homicide and other cases like rape, serious physical injury and more.

In terms of crimes against property especially to the common crime like robbery; the circumstantial evidence in this case is very important plus material evidence, even prima facie evidence and common that the robbery case was captured by CCTV camera especially to the buildings and houses who have these close circuit television is very crucial and very useful as a lead in investigation by law enforcers as part of criminal justice system or part of the pillars of justice system.

In robbery with homicide; sometimes the act was frustrated and instead of robbery with homicide was fell into robbery with frustrated homicide and the reliable witness was the victim of the crime and if the dead, the witness who witness the acts which prohibited by law to do so is the reliable witness as next to the victim if died. Not all witness is reliable witness; there were many incidents that there were many false witness and liable of perjury.

Same also to the crimes against nature; crimes which violated the law of nature; the witness is crucial unless with extra judicial confession and judicial confession; if not, the witness should provide to attest whether the allegedly violator was the real creator of misdeed in the sight of the law; remember all crimes has circumstances that needed to collect for future evidence and that was called circumstantial evidence.

In terms of infanticide; still the witness is crucial in this case, the possible witness is the brother or sister of the victim or any private individual who witness the killing of infant. To prove that the victim was offspring of the parent that allegedly the responsible of the killing, the DNA evidence is very useful in this case.

In terms of parricide; there are many possible witnesses those have seen the crime like the suspect was the last entered in the house and after few minutes the suspect that killed his/her offspring immediately leave the house without any reasons and the case has weight if the suspected of the creator of the crime has bolo with blood. Those circumstances are helpful in terms of circumstantial evidence.

In terms of massacre that resulted into multiple murder(s) wherein if there are people witness the group with firearms before the crime was committed.

What Does Circumstantial Evidence Mean

What does circumstantial evidence mean? Means all evidence was collected from circumstances; the above explanation is the common explanation in various crimes as mentioned above.