Not proven sufficient for the verdict ""guilty"", which has replaced the older verdict ""proven"". Approximately one third of all acquittal verdicts by Scottish juries use the formulation "Not proven"; the others use "Not guilty". The verdict ""Not proven"" also is available for judges in the summary procedure, and is employed in about a fifth of the "summary" acquittals. The proportion of "Not proven" acquittals in general is higher in the more severe cases; but so then are the proportion of acquittals "versus" convictions. This might have many different reasons, e.g., that in average it might be factually more complicated to establish guilt
The Guilty Man Claudine, fearing for her mother's safety, kills him. She is arrested and taken before the grand prosecutor, who discovers that Claudine is really his own child. During the trial he enforces the same rigidity which have characterized his other trials, but in the end confesses that he is the girl's father, resigns his position, and places himself at the mercy of the public. He is allowed to go free and solemnly promises to make up to his wife and daughter what they have missed. Like many American films of the time, "The Guilty Man" was subject to cuts by city