The coroner's court, its uses and abuses : with suggestions for reform / by J. J. Dempsy.
- Dempsy, J. J.
- Date:
- 1859
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The coroner's court, its uses and abuses : with suggestions for reform / by J. J. Dempsy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![with absurd addenda censuring certain parties for high moral guilt. In one case thus recorded, the indictment charged an accused with “ wilful murderf as “In tlie county aforesaid, feloniously, wilfully, and of malice aforethought, did neglect, omit, and refuse to give, and administer, and to permit, and suffer to be given, and administered to him, the said E, , sufficient meat and drink necessary for the support and maintenance of the body of him, the said R , &c.” And in the second case the party was charged with the capital offence, through causing death hy forcmg the deceased into the street while sick. Leaving this part of the subject, the next that comes under consideration is with respect to the verdicts of Coroners’ Juries, which likewise require great amendment on the present system. Their verdicts are at present so confined that Coroners’ Juries have frequently to travel out of their legitimate rules, and pass censures upon parties concerned, or they animadvert upon a particular system requiring in their opinion amendment, or entire repeal. This is certainly an abuse which has crept into the office, for Juries have no more right to adopt such a course than any unauthorised or illegal assembly. It might be appropriate to note on this subject that in giving judgment in a case tried in the Court of Queen’s Bench, on May 8th, 1844, [The Queen V. the Coroner of the City of London,] Lord Chief Justice Denman said, that the part of the finding,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28268350_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
