Illustrations of medical evidence and trial by jury in Scotland.

Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Illustrations of medical evidence and trial by jury in Scotland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are two sorts of evidence, which may be distinguished as hearsay or Procurator-Fiscal’s, and authentic, or that of the JustlC1^ ^ ’ But if the Lord Justice-Clerk’s court is so fastidious as he alleges, in regard to the admission of medical evidence, I^ should wishi to ask how it could happen that a man was sentenced to dea y tribunal for the murder of a woman, without any examination of th medical men under whose care she died, or any information as o the cause of death, except from persons who had not seen hei m life? Be this as it may, I venture to hope, that my e or s^ pose the impropriety of employing secondary evidence in judicia^ Investigations will not prove fruitless. Attention has now^ been fully awakened to the subject; and I need hardly say, obstinate adherence to official custom cannot long resist the foice public opinion. MURRAY AM D (UHB, PKIMTEKS, KD1N litJKGH.