The first rule of evidence in courts is that the easiest
explanation is the most probable one. The court always rejects
the far-fetched as the improbable. If the snow should fall
to-night, and to-morrow morning at daylight footprints in the
snow should be found, you could explain the footprints in the
easiest possible way--namely, a man went down the street. A
far-fetched explanation would be that an aeroplane came along,
that a man leaned out of the basket, and holding a shoe in
either hand carefully made these footprints so as to create
the impression that some one had walked down Orange Street. We
reject the explanation because it is involved. We choose the
easiest explanation and the simplest.--N. D. HILLIS.
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