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Updated: September 23, 2025
He knew he was guilty, he could not understand that it was possible that any juryman should have a doubt about it; he had taken the money that did not belong to him; that would be made quite clear; he had taken it, and had not repaid it; there was the absolute corpus delicti in court, in the shape of a deficiency of some thousands of pounds.
The high guests invited to meet Duke Franz, especially the high Brunswicks, are already there. High Brunswicks, Bevern with Duchess, and still more important, with Son and with Daughter: insipid CORPUS DELICTI herself has appeared on the scene; and Grumkow, we find, has been writing some description of her to the Crown-Prince.
Very probably they tied the rope round their own necks by taking advantage of the good King's indemnity. On the charge of murder they were not tried in September. Sir Christopher Turner would not proceed 'because the body of Harrison was not found. There was no corpus delicti, no evidence that Harrison was really dead.
On his very next visit, however, our physician found beside the bed of his patient the corpus delicti itself, to wit, a table covered with a snow-white cloth, a crystal cup, a handsome-looking bottle, and a napkin to wipe the lips.
I once observed, in a hut, a small fragment of the skin of a newly killed kid; the wolf had devoured the beast, and the shepherd was keeping this corpus delicti to prove to his superior, the agent, that he was innocent of the murder. There was something naive in his honesty as if a shepherd could not eat a kid as well as any wolf, and keep a portion of its skin!
None of the circumstances of this strange infatuation are legally conclusive of Lanier guilt. Without more direct proofs, such cogent evidence would not be even admissible. "How establish the 'corpus delicti'? Granted that either Oswald or Alice had been murdered, Paul's significant craze is legally irrelevant. Other bodies may have found quietus in Thames depths.
"The boss he keeps damnin' me up an' down all the time," Smith explained. "An' this morning he slugs me right here on the beak." He laid a gentle finger on the corpus delicti. "Hegner," inquired Jonathan, "why do you keep damning him up and down all the time? And why did you slug him on the beak?" "Because," Hegner grinned sheepishly, "his beak was the place most convenient."
Thus, logically, in incest there is a quasi-natural side, almost licit, because part of another person has entered into the engendering of the corpus delicti; while in Pygmalionism the father violates the child of his soul, of that which alone is purely and really his, which alone he can impregnate without the aid of another. The offence is, then, entire and complete.
However insensible these strange lawgivers may have been to so much cruelty, however blind to the perversity, prejudices, and weaknesses incident to human testimony, however ignorant of the total inefficacy of their remedy to deter from crime, one might have imagined that they could not but have known, if they ever looked inwardly into their own hearts, how obscure are human motives, and especially those that instigate to breaches of the law; and yet their consistent rule was, to make the corpus delicti prove the intention.
"Now let us go and see the corpus delicti," said the Vicar as soon as they had drawn their chairs from the table. The two men went out and walked round the chapel, and, finding it open, walked into it. Of course there were remarks made by both of them.
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