...Invoked, the corpus delicti must be established beyond reasonable doubt. "I would never," says Lord Hale, "convict any person of murder or manslaughter...proved to be done, or at least, the body found dead." "The death should be distinctly proved, either by direct evidence of the fact, by inspection Df the...

...judge, and knighted at the Restoration. This trial occurred on his first circuit. 2 'I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless...least the body found dead, for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my Lord Coke's Pleas of the Crown, cap. 104, p. 232, a Warwickshire case,' and another...

...culpable homicide, the first thing, of course, is to prove the death. Lord Hale says : " I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." ' He mentions two cages ; one within his own knowledge, where A was missing, and B was supposed to...

...seas." Lord Hale at one time laid down the rule that in cases of homicide, no conviction should be had unless the fact were proved to be done or at least the body found. This rule was commented upon and approved in Rulofl v. People, 1& NT 179, the court saying: •"This...

...have been murdered is based upon the statement of Lord HALE in 2 Hale, PC 290. that "I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." This statement was made at a time when a prisoner charged with a felony was not accorded the right...

...Not guilty. R. v. Knock, 14 Cox CC 1, C. 192, F. 206. § 108. Proof of Corpus Delicti. "I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead, aud this for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my Lord Coke 's PC, c. 104, p. 232. " * * * 2...

...murder unless the body of the deceased has been found, and a very great judge says, "I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless...fact were proved to be done, or at least the body he found dead." 2 Hale 290. Lord Hale only laid this down as a caution, not as a rule in every case....

...due proof made that a felony was committed of these goods. 2. That a person should never be convicted of murder, or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead.3 But this rule or caution must be taken with some qualifications, and circumstances may be sufficiently...

...committed of these goods. I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact was proved to be done, or at least the body found dead, — for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap. 104, p. 232, a Warwickshire case, another that happened in...

...all substitutes. Thus, it is an established rule that a prisoner shall not be convicted of murder, " unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body be found dead."3 But real evidence is often produced at trials, when it is not exacted by any rule...