Jul 13, 2019
Melville Davisson Post
West Virginia equivalent of Englishman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: "Does he jest, or has he forgotten the evidence? The term 'corpus delicti' is technical, and means the body of the crime, or the substantial fact that a crime has been committed. Does anyone doubt it in this case?" https://americanliterature.com/author/melville-davisson-post/short-story/the-corpus-delicti