Evidence to Convict?

[RoadRunner79]

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So I did post this in another thread, but I thought that many might have tuned out in that, and I'm interested in getting a view of peoples opinions. Besides I never did a poll before, and thought in might be fun, as well as provide an option for those who don't want to comment.  I apologize in advance for those who like many options to a poll, but this is an excluded middle type of question (either A or Not A).


So a hypothetical question. A few of us, along with some strangers are sitting in a room (say 11 people in total) I'm trying to have a discussion with spmeone, and he just keeps calling me names, refuses to engage in anything, and just repeats back any accusation I make without even paying attention to the context. (you know the child's game of I know you are but what am I). I lose it, and hit him over the head with a chair, seriously injuring him (blind sided him of course). No one lets me leave, until the cops get there. Everyone gives slightly different accounts. Some seen the whole thing, some where distracted until the ruckus broke out. But everyone reports the same story, that I maliciously injured somebody. And their is no other evidence found, with which to specifically identify me as the culprit.

Is anyone seriously going to tell me, that they have no evidence with which to hold and convict me? That it's just one story against mine? If the nightly news didn't cover it, does that negate the others claims (after all what self respecting news reporter is going to air a story without evidence)? Do we need a scientist to duplicate the event in a lab in order to evidence the story? Do we need to find someone in the room that doesn't believe the claim, but corroborates it? Do their accounts need to include mundane details about who I am, like I fart on the bus and blame other people. Is the testimony of these 10 other people the claim or the evidence.


How would you honestly answer, This is only about this scenario, not considering anything else.

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Also note, I'm not here to discuss or persuade anyone.  I'm interested in others opinions.  Comments welcome...preferably about the topic

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I did vote yes, that I think that the testimony is evidence and enough for conviction.  It was specified in the OP, That there stories where a little different, but basically said the same thing.  Perhaps there is a little bit of an assumption that the testimony was good testimony, without any reason to doubt it (which I could have been clearer on). It was also indicated, that the person was held after the fact, so there is no issue of witnesses trying to identify someone they do not know after the fact.  

I don't think that because they are describing the same thing, that they are just one story retold in different ways. But multiple lines of independent evidence.  I don't think that if it didn't make the nightly news, that it effects the testimony the others.  History is not repeatable, so I don't think that it is a matter of science to evidence the story (although it may be able to add something, it is indirect).  I don't think that we need a person who doesn't believe the claim to chime in.  And I don't think that mundane details either about the witnesses or the one doing the assault aids, nor the lack of these type of details takes away from the account.  What is important is the event they are attesting to (here detail does matter, even in determining that they are in fact individual accounts).  I don't believe that this is the claim but what is observed is transferred information about what was seen and heard indicating that the proposition that I assaulted the man in this case is true.  If there was further evidence to the contrary, or reason to doubt, then that would be taken into account as well and could possibly outweigh the existing evidence.

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The topic seems to have turned to how you've been victimized, somehow.  Meanwhile, questions that apply to yourself, the gospels, and all personal testimony go unanswered.

We are going to fix that and get back on topic....Bye bye, I wish you well.