In 1850, the standard in murder cases was proof "to an absolute certainty" that the dead body was that of the victim, or absolute proof of corpus delicti. The Webster case was one of the first ...

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"Our justice system is built on fairness, requiring independent evidence to establish the corpus delicti and protect the rights of the accused." Trial is scheduled to begin on March 17.

Haigh had taken to studying legal textbooks and believed that for a person to be convicted of murder there had to be a body, an aspect of law called corpus delicti. It turned out he wasn’t as ...

Rachakonda police commissioner G. Sudheer Babu told Deccan Chronicle that they believe in the principle of corpus delicti, a Latin phrase on the importance of 'body of the crime’. Elaborating ...