A Text-book of legal medicine and toxicology v. 1, 1903, Volume 1W.B. Saunders & Company, 1903 |
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... reason that our system has not long ago been altered to meet the needs of justice lies in the chief characteristic of the American method of criminal trial - viz . , that the accused shall be allowed to produce any proper legal or ...
... reason that our system has not long ago been altered to meet the needs of justice lies in the chief characteristic of the American method of criminal trial - viz . , that the accused shall be allowed to produce any proper legal or ...
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... reason each step in the autopsy should be completed , if possible , before the next is commenced . The record consequently embodies the following subdivisions : 1. Preliminary data , including name , sex , age , color , time and place ...
... reason each step in the autopsy should be completed , if possible , before the next is commenced . The record consequently embodies the following subdivisions : 1. Preliminary data , including name , sex , age , color , time and place ...
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... reasons by artificial light , may be open to criticism , and the observations should , under such circum- stances , always be controlled by microscopic examination , more particu- larly when it concerns diffuse lesions of the ...
... reasons by artificial light , may be open to criticism , and the observations should , under such circum- stances , always be controlled by microscopic examination , more particu- larly when it concerns diffuse lesions of the ...
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... reason why the hair so often furnishes decisive evidence lies in the positive information as to its origin and character obtained by microscopic examination . When hairs are recovered from a dead body or from its vicinity , they should ...
... reason why the hair so often furnishes decisive evidence lies in the positive information as to its origin and character obtained by microscopic examination . When hairs are recovered from a dead body or from its vicinity , they should ...
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... reason and not upon the senses , and because the influences affecting the ordinary laws of mind are very few compared with the limitless number of possible exceptions to physical laws . Thus it is quite possible , although not probable ...
... reason and not upon the senses , and because the influences affecting the ordinary laws of mind are very few compared with the limitless number of possible exceptions to physical laws . Thus it is quite possible , although not probable ...
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Page 540 - But whenever the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive or intent is a necessary element to constitute a particular species or degree of crime, the jury may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated at the time, in determining the purpose, motive or intent with which he committed the act.
Page 440 - in all suits upon policies of insurance on life hereafter issued by any company doing business in this State, to a citizen of this State, it shall be no defense that the insured committed suicide, unless it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the court or jury trying the cause, that the insured contemplated suicide at the time he made his application for the policy, and any stipulation in the policy to the...
Page 7 - This work presents to the medical and legal professions a comprehensive survey of forensic medicine and toxicology in moderate compass. For convenience of reference the treatise has been divided into two sections, Part I and Part II, the latter being devoted to Toxicology and all other portions of Legal Medicine in which laboratory investigation is an essential feature. Under "Expert Evidence...
Page 445 - If the assured, being in the possession of his ordinary reasoning faculties, from anger, pride, jealousy or a desire to escape from the ills of life, intentionally takes his own life, the proviso attaches, and there can be no recovery. If the death is caused by the voluntary Opinion of the Court.