corpus delicti

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Now, I read from Best on Presumptions, page 279: "The corpus delicti, the body of an offence, is the fact of its actually having been committed."

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But, O wonder upon wonder! the corpus delicti was in very deed transformed into the fairest blooming roses; the rolls had changed to white roses, the sausages to red, the omelets to yellow ones!

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The commonest method is the complete destruction of the corpse—the corpus delicti.

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If Hallard could open the penitentiary, why not the grave in which a corpus delicti had been hastily hidden?

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The most he could do was to draw me aside and disclose to me all; but the overhearing neighborhood and the impetuous corpus delicti discovered the same to the Commercial Agent.

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