De Corpore Delicti

Lat. As to the corpus delicti, or substantial fact of a crime having been, committed. Be corpore delicti constare oportebat; i. e. non tarn fuisse aliquem in territorioisto mortuum inventum, quam vulneratum et ccesum. Potest enim homo etiam ex alia causa subito mori. It ought to be clear as to the corpus delicti; i. e. not only that one was found dead in that neighborhood, but that he was wounded and slain. For a man may die suddenly from another cause. Stiemhook de Jur. Gothor. b. 3, c. 4. 3 Bl. Com. 348, note {t).