Not proven Not proven Not proven is a verdict available to a court in Scotland. Under Scots law, a criminal trial may end in one of three verdicts: one of conviction ("guilty") and two of acquittal ("not proven" and "not guilty"). Between the Restoration in the late 17th century and the early 18th century, jurors in Scotland were expected only to find whether individual factual allegations were proven or not proven, rather than to rule on an accused's guilt. In 1728, the jury in a murder trial asserted "its ancient right" to declare a defendant "not guilty". Over time, the "not guilty"
Guilty Men Men" and argued that "unpreparedness before the war was largely the consequence of the policies of the parties of the Left". In 1944 Geoffrey Mander had published "We were not all wrong". The idea of appeasement as error and cowardice was challenged in 1960 by historian A. J. P. Taylor's controversial "The Origins of the Second World War", in which he argued that, in the circumstances, it might be seen as a rational policy. Guilty Men Guilty Men is a short book published in Great Britain in July 1940 that attacked British public figures for their failure to re-arm and