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In District Court for the
Second Judicial District
Utah Territory

The People of the United States
in Utah Territory
vs.
John D Lee - Imp'd

Instruction
for Prosecution

The Dist Atty for said Territory
requests the court to give the follow-
ing instructions to the jury to wit

First
Given
⏤Objected To⏤

To authorize the jury to
find the prisoner guilty⏤his
guilt must be proved beyond
a reasonable doubt⏤
And Proof which convinces
and directs the understanding and
satisfies the reason and judgment
of those who are found to act conscientiously
upon it is proof beyond
a reasonable doubt⏤If it leaves
in the mind an abiding conviction
to a moral certainty of the truth of
the charge

Second
Given

Here possible doubt is not a
reasonable doubt⏤because everything
relating to human affairs
are depending upon moral