Scotch verdict

It is like the old Scotch verdict when a man was tried for larceny.

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But the prosecutor's exoneration of Donovan was something like the Scotch verdict of "not proven."

As I recall it, they never proved that it did, or at best reached a Scotch verdict.

We know it is very much like the Scotch verdict of "non proven," but still there is no doubt among fair-minded men.