Outlines of medical jurisprudence for India / by J.D.B. Gribble and Patrick Hehir.

  • Gribble, J. D. B. (James Dunning Baker), -1906
Date:
1898
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Credit: Outlines of medical jurisprudence for India / by J.D.B. Gribble and Patrick Hehir. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XLIII.] the deceased. The only possible explanation was, that bangles resembling those worn by deceased were placed under a stone by some one else (police ?) and that then the prisoner was induced to confess and was told where the bangles had been concealed. In his confession (afterwards withdrawn), the prisoner said that deceased had fallen in by accident, and that he had then taken off the bangles and hidden them away because he was afraid. The prisoner was acquitted. It is exceedingly possible in this case that the prisoner was the murderer, but the story of the bangles was palpably false, and a false confession of this kind can only be accounted for in one way, i.e., it was obtained by improper means at the latrine : there were, however, no marks of injuries on the accused.
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