Chapter 228 Evidence Loopholes

This detail was not mentioned in the file, because it was relatively simple to record confessions in ancient times, especially the transcript of the defendant's confession, which was even simpler, so such details were not asked, nor were they recorded in detail, so Xiao Jiading did not see it.

Qiu Sheng said: "Yes, it is an axe that chops bones, it is very heavy, and if the axe hits my head, I will die......"

"You deserve to die!" Wu Yueniang interjected angrily, "If you don't seduce other people's concubines, they won't chase you!" ”

Qiu Sheng lowered his head again, and after a while, he said in a muffled voice: "If he doesn't force Sang Lian's mother to give Sang Lian to him as a concubine, there will be no follow-up!" ”

"Yo! Do you still have a point? ”

"It was meant to be!" Qiu Sheng raised his head and said desperately, "At the beginning, Sang Lianniang's shop was burned down, and he wanted to borrow money to start a new business, so he took the initiative to come to the door to lend money to Sang Lianniang. Verbally said well, as long as there is a profit, Sang Lianniang felt that it was acceptable, so she agreed, but later it became very profitable! You think, it's very profitable, it's profitable, isn't Sang Lanniang still unpaid until she dies? Sang Lianniang asked him to reason, but he said that what he said at the beginning was very beneficial. Sang Lianniang looked for a Chinese person, but the Chinese person had been bought by him, helped him speak, and said that this was what he said at the beginning. ”

Speaking of this, Qiu Sheng was even more excited: "It was very beneficial to say that it was good? How is this possible? Very profitable! If it was really a high interest rate, no one would borrow it, not to mention that Sang Lianniang was just a small business selling tofu, how could she borrow such a high interest debt? It's not over even when you die. Sang Lianniang went to the yamen to complain, but the people in the yamen said that their handwriting was written like this, and Sang Lianniang said that she didn't know how to read, but she just listened to the Chinese people read it, and it was said that it was a penny of profit, and I don't know how it became a very profit. It must be that the Chinese colluded with the high shopkeeper to make ghosts. But the people in the yamen said that they wanted her to take evidence. Where did she have any evidence? The yamen threw her out. ”

Qiu Sheng began to cry, very sad: "I know, the shopkeeper Gao eats people without spitting out bones, he comes to the door every day to force debts, and every penny of selling tofu is taken away by him to pay off the debts, and Sang Lian's mother and daughter eat bran and vegetables to repay the debts, and they can't pay them off." I was also coerced by the high shopkeeper every day, saying that if I couldn't pay off the debt, I would take Sang Lian to pay off the debt, every time I saw Sang Lian crying. My heart is like a knife......"

Wu Yueniang interjected: "So you hate the shopkeeper Gao, and you killed her that day!" ”

"I really didn't want to kill him, although I really hated him! He deceived Sang Lian's mother and daughter and pushed Sang Lian into the fire pit. I hated him, but I never wanted to kill. It was he who was going to cut me with an axe, and I was so frightened that I held my head and threw a stone indiscriminately. Who thought ......"

Xiao Jiading's heart moved, and he asked, "Are you holding your head and throwing stones?" Did you see that he was hit? ”

"I didn't see it. I didn't dare to look, I just held my head, and then I saw that there was no movement, and then I saw him lying on the ground. The axe was thrown aside, and I didn't care about anything else, so I ran away. ”

"Was there anyone else around at the time?"

"Nope. It was a dead end, and no one was in it. I heard that his body was found later in the evening. ”

"No one witnessed?" Xiao Jiading touched his chin. After pondering for a moment, he said to the clerk on the side: "I want to question the culprit again, and you make a record." Every sentence is recorded and not omitted! ”

"Yes!" The scribe hurriedly prepared pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Xiao Jiading asked Qiu Sheng: "You tell me the details of what happened, from the time he chased you out of the kitchen of the restaurant with an axe, all the way to the dead end." ”

"Good!" Qiu Sheng told the story in detail. Wu Yueniang and Eldest Sun Yanran on the side didn't feel anything strange when they heard this, and looked at him a little strangely.

After recording the transcript, Xiao Jiading asked Qiu Sheng to be taken down. Then he took out the corpse compartment from the file, put it on the table, and said to the second daughter and the scribe: "You see, the corpse compartment says that the deceased had a bloody nose, a loose tooth, a cracked lip, and a bruise on his face. Right? ”

The three of them looked at it and nodded.

Xiao Jiading took out the on-site investigation record and schematic diagram again, pointed to it and said: "Look, there is a stone in the place where there are blood stains in the on-site investigation!" ”

The three of them leaned in to take a look. Only the schematic map does have some circles, indicating that the ground of this cul-de-sac is paved with pebbles of various sizes, and there happens to be a circle where the blood stains are marked.

Wu Yueniang pursed her lips and said, "This is just a casual drawing when I was drawing, which means that this is paved with pebbles, and it doesn't mean that there is a pebble where there are blood stains." ”

The undertaker scrivener hurriedly said: "I just went to inspect the scene, and the bloodstain has already been washed away, and I can't find the specific location, but there are indeed a lot of pebbles on the ground, and it is not unusual for the bloodstain to have pebbles." ”

Xiao Jiading praised: "Very good, to be able to go to the scene to inspect in person, this kind of case-handling spirit is indeed very good." ”

The scribe laughed, and was very happy.

The eldest grandson Yanran said: "Even if there are blood stains on the stone, what can it mean?" When the dead were on the ground, of course there were blood stains! ”

"Not really." Xiao Jiading said: "There were no other eyewitnesses at the scene, and when the defendant threw the stone himself, he threw it out with his head in his hands, and he himself did not see whether the stone hit the other party." ”

"So what?"

"Since no one has proved whether the stone thrown by Qiu Sheng hit the other party, how can it be said that the shopkeeper Gao was hit in the head by the stone thrown by Qiu Sheng and died?"

"Didn't he kill him? How did the high shopkeeper die? Could it be that he fell to his death? ”

"Why not?"

The three of them were stunned, looking at each other, and after a while, Wu Yueniang asked, "Do you think he fell to his death?" ”

"Yes!" Xiao Jiading nodded affirmatively, "Judging from the autopsy, the deceased's nose bleeds, -- let me ask, if the stone hits the temple, will the nose bleed?" ”

Wu Yueniang shook her head: "This shouldn't be." ”

"Well, the deceased had abrasions and bruises on his face, and if a stone hit his temple would cause abrasions and bruises on his entire face?"

"No, it won't." This Wu Yueniang is certain.

Xiao Jiading said: "Then how did these scars come from?" Qiu Sheng's confession and the testimony of eyewitnesses in the kitchen prove that Qiu Sheng has only been hiding and has not fought back. Therefore, these scars are definitely not caused by Qiu Sheng. There is only one possibility, and that is caused by hitting the cobblestone road when you fall! ”

"That's not right," Wu Yueniang said, "After Qiu Sheng's stone hit him, he fell to the ground, which may also cause it!" ”

"It's different!" Xiao Jiading looked at Wu Yueniang and nodded secretly, thinking that this woman was not brainless, "The deceased's face is a bruise, do you know what a bruise is?" A abrasion is a kind of abrasion that forms on the face when you rush forward. If he had been hit in the head by a rock, he would have fallen backwards. No matter how bad it is, it will fall soft on the spot, and it cannot be pounced on in the past. ”

"Really?" Wu Yueniang tilted her head and looked at the eldest grandson Yanran, and the second daughter pondered for a while and felt that it made some sense.

Xiao Jiading said: "The teeth in the deceased's mouth were loose and his nose was bleeding, which further shows that the deceased fell face down." If a stone had been struck from the front, it would have been impossible to fall forward and hurt your nose, mouth, and teeth. -- To sum up, Qiu Sheng's stone did not hit the deceased. The deceased fell forward on his own, hitting his head on the temple and died. ”

This conclusion was so unexpected that the three of them couldn't react for a while.

Xiao Jiading looked at the eldest grandson Yanran.

The eldest grandson Yanran knew. The sweetheart was the most in need of support at this time, and immediately said: "I think Xiao Zhiyi's analysis is very reasonable, combined with the autopsy and on-site investigation of the case, which is completely consistent." There is no evidence to prove that Qiu Sheng's stone hit the deceased, causing the deceased's death. Therefore, it should be determined that the deceased shopkeeper Gao fell and caused his death. ”

"But......" Wu Yueniang still felt that something was wrong, but she didn't know what was wrong.

The eldest grandson Yanran tugged at her sleeve. He said in a low voice: "This high shopkeeper is not a good person, he deceived people into borrowing money from usury, made his mother tired to death in order to repay debts, and forcibly took other people's daughters as concubines, this kind of bully is innocent, why speak for him?" ”

Wu Yueniang thought about it, nodded and said, "That's right, Xiao Zhiyi, I also agree with your opinion." This high shopkeeper was killed by a fall, not by Qiu Sheng's stone. ”

Xiao Jiading breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the clerk. The scribe hurriedly laughed and said, "I also think what Zhiyi said is very true." He fell to his death, not was killed. ”

Xiao Jiading said: "In this case, you remake the judgment report." ”

"Yes, yes!" The scribe agreed, and walked away quickly.

Subsequently, according to Xiao Jiading's analysis just now, the undertaker remade the verdict, intending to determine that the shopkeeper Gao died in an accident and died by falling down and hitting a stone, so Qiu Sheng also did not fight to kill his husband, so the crime of intentional homicide between the two of them was not established, but they were sentenced to two years in prison for the crime of adultery. The two escaped death, it was really like a dream, they didn't know that Xiao Jiading played a key role in it, but they were grateful to God and the court.

Two years later, the two completed their sentences and went away to a foreign country hand in hand, and their lovers finally became married.

A case reported later also involved grievances and hatreds. The facts of the case are as follows: A man has two wives and concubines, and he is very affectionate. Originally, life was good, but the mother-in-law always looked at her daughter-in-law and the concubine unpleasantly, and finally forced her son to divorce his wife and abandon the concubine. The son was very filial and did not dare to disobey his mother's orders, so he had to divorce his wife and concubine against his will. A loving family was torn apart in this way. Because the son was in love with his wife and concubine, he couldn't think about it for a while and hanged himself.

When the wife and the concubine learned about it, they were very sad and went to the door together, but the mother-in-law did not allow them to enter the door, and the two of them went crazy with their hearts, shouting that they would strangle their mother-in-law, and then they would die themselves, and they were married to their husbands in the underworld. When the two pinched her mother-in-law's neck, she was pulled away and sent to the yamen. The yamen determined that the wife and concubine attempted to murder the mother of their late husband, and although they did not succeed, they were sentenced to 2,000 li in exile in accordance with the provisions of the "Yonghui Law".

The wife and concubine did not cry out for injustice, but hated that they did not kill their mother-in-law. But the mother's family of the two helped to cry out for grievances, saying that they were just crazy for a moment and asked for a lighter punishment. Don't sentence them to exile, if they are exiled to the penal center, they will not survive. Because the family shouted grievances, the case was handled as a prisoner case, and the proposed punishment put forward by the scrivener was to uphold the original verdict.

The case was sent to Xiao Jiading, Wu Yueniang and the eldest grandson Yanran listened to the report, and after reading the materials, Wu Yueniang held the "Yonghui Law" in her hand, and said while pointing to the articles on it: "There is nothing wrong with this case. Although this little daughter-in-law deserves sympathy, it does not excuse her for murdering her mother-in-law! That's the following offense! You see, the "Yonghui Law" is very clearly written: 'Wives and concubines murder the grandparents and parents of their deceased husbands, and they will flow 2,000 li. The wounded, hanged. Those who have been killed, they will be beheaded. Therefore, if the little daughter-in-law murders her mother-in-law, she must be sentenced to exile, and there is nothing wrong with that! ”

Murder in the Tang Dynasty was not premeditated murder in the modern sense, but joint murder, that is, the meaning of two or more people committing a crime together.

The eldest grandson Yanran was also looking at "Yonghui Law", she hesitated for a moment, and said: "However, there is a legal note behind this sentence, which reads 'The old husband, the husband died and remarried.'" This means that the husband is limited to the case where the husband is dead, and the difference in this case is that the daughter-in-law has already been divorced by the time the husband dies. In other words, she is no longer a member of her husband's family, so it is not the same as the situation of a daughter-in-law murdering her late husband's mother as stipulated in the "Yonghui Law". This article cannot be applied. ”

"Why not?" Wu Yueniang glared and said, "Her husband is dead, is it her late husband?" She killed her former mother-in-law, that is, she murdered her late husband's parents! Exactly the same as this one! ”

"That's not right!" The eldest grandson Yanran also did not give in, "The deceased husband is only the wife after the death of the husband, not including the death of the wife after the divorce." ”

"How not to include it? I think that's it! ”

The two of you are happy to say a word to me. Xiao Jiading looked funny, this problem was actually clearly stipulated in the "Yonghui Shu Yi" a year later: "If the wife and concubine are divorced and divorced, they are the same as mortals, and they are not included in the limit of 'deceased husband'." Therefore, the deceased husband is limited to the death of the husband during the conjugal relationship. It does not include the death of the husband after the divorce or the divorce by mutual agreement. Therefore, what the eldest grandson Yanran said was right. It's just that this regulation is not yet available, and Xiao Jiading can't convince her with too convincing grounds for a while.

Xiao Jiading thought for a while and said, "Miss Wu, if you are this daughter-in-law, you have been divorced by your husband......"

"Hmph, my husband dares to divorce me? He doesn't want to live anymore? ”

"I'm making an analogy, for example, you are this little daughter-in-law, not you."

"Okay, you say."

"If you are this little daughter-in-law and have been divorced by your husband, and if your ex-husband's family commits a felony of rebellion, and wants to kill you and cut off your head, do you feel wronged?" (To be continued......)