Medical jurisprudence, forensic medicine and toxicology . - are very sus-picious of murder. Thus Taylor1 cites the case of a murdertrial in Ireland, in 18?^, where hairs found firmly grasped inthe hands of the deceased were found to correspond to the hairof the accused. The clothes of the deceased, as well as thoseof the accused, often indicate a struggle unless the accused can. Fig. 12.—Incised Wounds of Right Hand in the Struggle of Defence. Homicide. satisfactorily account for the condition of lii- own clothes insome other way. The examination of the clothes and body of the de-ceased and th
Medical jurisprudence, forensic medicine and toxicology . - are very sus-picious of murder. Thus Taylor1 cites the case of a murdertrial in Ireland, in 18?^, where hairs found firmly grasped inthe hands of the deceased were found to correspond to the hairof the accused. The clothes of the deceased, as well as thoseof the accused, often indicate a struggle unless the accused can. Fig. 12.—Incised Wounds of Right Hand in the Struggle of Defence. Homicide. satisfactorily account for the condition of lii- own clothes insome other way. The examination of the clothes and body of the de-ceased and the accused may furnish importanl evidence. If suicide is accomplished by a weapon like a knife, ii is rare for the hand not to he bloody. If it i-> not bloody we may well suspect a case of supposed suicide. The present of blood on the hand does not prove suicide, though its absence may Med. Jurisprudence, UthAmer. 1892. 538 WOUNDS—WOOLSEY. disprove it, as the hand is generally bloody in case of murderby being carried to the wound. The examination of the clothing of the deceased is of greatimportance. As we have noticed before, a suicide generallyopens them, a murderer rarely. A suicide is often partly oreven wholly undressed when he inflicts the wound, while mur-der is usually committed on those entirely dressed. The woundof the clothes should correspond to t
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