Word: delicti
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...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...
...Many whodunit addicts think that a suspect cannot be held for murder unless there is a corpus delicti-"often used erroneously to designate the physical body of the victim of a murder" (Webster). Actually, corpus delicti is the "substantial and fundamental facts necessary to the commission of a crime." Britain's last murder-without-body was in 1934, when a poultry breeder, Thomas Joseph Davidson, drowned his eight-year-old son. He was sent to prison for life...
...Corpus Delicti. In Sydney, Australia, police charged Andrew See with assault, declared they had found the evidence in his raincoat pocket: his father-in-law's left...
...Corpus Delicti. If there had indeed been a Prosecutor to try the enormous case of this murdered woman and the 100,000 other Indians, he might have opened with a point of wide application...
...ramshackle realism. The picture also had an unusually able scenarist, Funnyman Nunnally Johnson, who never hesitates to throw away a tense scene when he can think of a gag. Sample: finding a murdered body on his hands, Melody Jones asks what his partner means by the phrase corpus delicti. Answer: "It means if they got a corpus, you're delict...