Per Curiam.
In this case, as in a number of recent criminal appeals, defendant urges that it was error for the trial court to charge that proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is synonymous with proof "to a moral certainty." We take this occasion to state that in our view this is not error.
The correct and determinative standard is of course that guilt must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. And in every case the trial court should explicitly charge...
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