Word: delicti
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...defense." ruled Judge Wrard, "in presenting a case would be merely . . . shadowboxing. . . . There is no evidence here," said he, turning to the jury, "that a murder was committed. There is not even a corpus delicti. I therefore advise you to return a verdict of acquittal." In two minutes the jury...
...feet just at the proper moment, the new Doctor of Laws asfounded the assembly with a Latin address in which Dr. Beck himself was unable to discover a single error. A brief quotation from this eloquent production will be sufficient to exhibit its character: 'Caveat emptor; corpus delicti; ex post facto; dies irae; e pluribus unum; usque ad nauseam; Ursa Major; sic semper tyrannis; quid pro quo; requiescat in pace'. Now this foolery was immensely taking in the day of it. . . The story was, on the whole, so good as showing how the man of the people could triumph over...
Another witness for the prosecution was a deaf mute who by finger twitches testified he had seen the four attackers carry Franklin toward a big log fire. The State, contending that Franklin was burned alive, exhibited as the corpus delicti a boxful of charred bones. Because a temple bone had inadvertently been mislaid a State health officer would not swear that the remains were human. The live "Connie Franklin" said that on the night of the "murder" he had started out with Tiller. He explained: "I fell off my mule-had a few too many swigs-and cut my haid...