Corpus ___

Usage examples of delicti.

If the corpus delicti, the body of the crime, has been proven, as required by the laws of the commonwealth, then this case should go to the jury.

Your Honor has but to recall and apply the rigid rule announced by our courts prescribing distinctly how the corpus delicti in murder must be proven.

The People, and binding upon this Court, that both components of the corpus delicti shall not be established by circumstantial evidence.

And now the letters must inevitably be used as the corpus delicti at a confrontation.

Without these teeth the proof of the corpus delicti would have been incomplete, and so afforded Webster a fair chance of acquittal.

The first witness was the coroner of Greenfield County, who was called, in accordance with accepted legal procedure, merely to establish the fact that Miss Hannah Starbuck was dead, and that the corpus delicti which would be referred to throughout the trial was that of Miss Hannah Starbuck.

Clearly the perpetrator had carried it away by means of a cart or wagon, the sound of whose wheels Emerson and I had heard, but I was forced to admit that without a corpus delicti my case was considerably weakened.