Word: delicti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devotee of fictional whodunits could plainly see that Scott did not murder his wife. Circumstantial evidence pointed to him, and in whodunits the suspect with the most evidence against him is never the murderer. Furthermore, there seemed to be no corpus delicti: in whodunits, corpus delicti means a corpse...
...corpus delicti means not the body of a victim but the "body of the offense," i.e., evidence that the crime in question has been committed. Even in murder cases that evidence can be circumstantial. In California over the years, at least five defendants had been convicted of murdering victims whose bodies were never found...
...Corpus Delicti. State's witness, Sheriff Thomas O'Brien, took the stand. He testified that Dr. Sander, after being confronted with his notation, had told him that Abbie Borroto's anguished husband, Reginald, had pleaded with the doctor to "do something to eliminate his wife's pain, even, if necessary, to eliminate her life." That "Borroto was smoking and drinking coffee all night-he went home and started drinking-he had a bad heart." That Sander "in a weak moment decided...
...case: that another doctor, Albert Snay, who had examined Abbie Borroto before Dr. Sander saw her that morning, could not feel her pulse; that she might already have been dead when Dr. Sander gave her the injections of air; that the prosecution could not produce a corpus delicti, i.e., proof of death by a criminal...