corpus delicti

"You going to make a fight on the question of corpus delicti?"

Morrison's body never turned up, but I had good corpus delicti evidence.

"You've got to keep him from telling his story, either by this corpus delicti defense or in some other way."

The term, corpus delicti, means the body of the Offense.

I've got to beat them on this corpus delicti angle.

Corpus delicti is one of the most important concepts in a murder investigation.

Corpus delicti, a legal term meaning "body of the crime"

"Hold the fort while I dispose of the corpus delicti."

Now the Prosecution's going to run up against one big hurdle on this corpus delicti business.

He's putting in the corpus delicti with just a smattering of testimony.

This, all of it, was the corpus delicti, the body of the crime.

"Curious about what you lawyers call the corpus delicti."

Without the corpus delicti, you have no case!

Maybe politeness, maybe he just wanted to get away from the corpus delicti.

In 1850, the law required the prosecution to prove the existence of a crime, that is, the corpus delicti.

"Was that," Mason inquired, "why you wanted to know about the corpus delicti?"

Corpus Delicti were a gothic rock band active in the early-mid 1990s.

It was late in the trial, but a corpus delicti might help the prosecution as well as end the family's concern.

You might say they came up with the perfect solution for disposing of the corpus delicti."

Even the biggest supporter of the government cannot show evidence of corpus delicti in our actions.

May it please be understood that I am calling her at this time only for the purpose of establishing the corpus delicti.

While corpus delicti does not require a corpse, it is enormously more difficult to make a charge of murder stand up without one.

'We know the thief but lack the 'Corpus delicti,' supplied L6wenherz.

"Could you keep Sacks from testifying if you tripped them up on this corpus delicti business?"

"There has to be a corpus delicti and in this case we had no physical evidence and no witness.