Chapter 114: Confrontation in court
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The first to bring was the Jiang family, and this was also the first time that Zhao Zhouzun had met and inquired with this woman so closely.
He couldn't help but look at it a little, because until now, in fact, this state official, who was respected by the people of Fenyang as "old parents", really didn't believe that the Jiang family was innocent and innocent. In the view of Zhao Jiangcheng, who is known for his filial piety and self-discipline, there are no parents in the world who are not, and Jiang may not have killed her husband Wu Dagui, but it must be the ordinary style that will cause her mother-in-law to misunderstand, causing Wu Lao Niang to listen to Wu Ergui's explanation, thinking that Jiang colluded with her adulterer to kill her eldest son, even if Jiang was wronged, how could she accuse her mother-in-law of deliberately covering up the real murderer? This is unfilial!
Thinking about his own family, even if his wife is the queen's sister, although it is inevitable to be arrogant, he never dares to be as rebellious as Jiang in front of his old mother!
Zhao Zhouzun had a stomach full of prejudices, and kept stretching his face and saying coldly when interrogating Jiang, making Hu Duan a little suspicious, and there was an illusion that Zhao Zhouzun actually wanted to implement Jiang's crimes.
Lan Ting stood aside and stared at his toes in silence, which was his usual attitude when he held back his anger.
Fortunately, Zhao Zhouzun's disgust with the Jiang family was limited to his attitude, and when he questioned the case, he still followed the routine drawn up by Lan Ting in advance, and did not refute Jiang's confession.
The person who was arraigned was Wu Ergui, Zhao Zhouzun looked at it highly, and saw that this man had a good pair of thick eyebrows, and four cheeks, strong and stocky, if he had poetry and books in his belly, he could definitely hold up the official shelf...... So Zhao Zhouzun actually felt a little sympathy for him!
If it comes out here, maybe he will be so angry that he vomits blood: What kind of parents and officials, what kind of big man, if you are blind, you might as well be a woman who knows everything? ! Phew, being an official is not the master of the people, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes, if you are blind, it is even more misguided to the country and the people, and stupidity is more terrible than bribery!
However, Zhao Zhouzun is still under the two emotions of anger and patience, and can temporarily maintain a delicate balance.
He asked: "According to your previous confession, on the night of the crime, you invited your brother, the deceased Wu Dagui, to your house for a drink, did you talk?" ”
Wu Ergui replied: "Yes." ”
"Still not changing your confession?"
"Don't change."
"Then the official asked you, do you remember what food you prepared that day, and what kind of wine you prepared?"
"The wine is the Fenhe millet roast of the Machu kidnapper at the intersection of Dongxu, I bought three or four jars as soon as I bought it, and I didn't buy it that day because there were still two jars left at home, enough for our brothers to drink. As for eating, there was oily meat, smoked quail, a large plate of cat ears, and fried yellow peas. ”
Hu Duan on the side, hearing that Zhao Zhouzun actually tried the case like this, he couldn't help sneering again and again.
Earlier, Jiang insisted that Wu Dagui had not gone out that night, and it was dinner with a few members of their family, but Jiang couldn't remember what food was prepared that day. Zhao Zhou Zunmo didn't really want to confirm Jiang's crimes, right? What kind of enmity did he have with this woman? It was still Zhao Zhouzun's brain that knocked on the door frame inadvertently.
So Hu Duan almost didn't pay attention to Zhao Zhouzun and Wu Ergui's next round of inquiries, no need to listen anymore, Wu Ergui's answer must be no different from the first testimony, and it is destined to be seamless.
To the third person to be arraigned, it was Wu Lao Niang, for this "mother-in-law level", Zhao Zhouzun showed special respect, avoided kneeling and did not speak, and also allowed Wu Lao Niang to sit and answer on the grounds of her age, and there was no difference between the words asked and the previous round, and Wu Lao Niang's answer was also surprisingly consistent with her son's.
Then it was Zhang's turn, Zhao Zhouzun, who was high up, looked at the woman's words and deeds, scratched his head and gestured in the court, his eyebrows simply did not pull out a dead knot, and for the first time in this case, he highly agreed with Lan Ting's judgment - compared to Jiang's, this woman is even more unfilial!
So Zhao Zhouzun was even more suspicious of the routine drawn up by Lan Ting, and before the interrogation, he suddenly ordered Jiang to be interrogated in court.
Today's state and county magistrates ask the case, although the law stipulates some procedures, there are also restrictions such as torture, review, etc., but there are no detailed rules and guidelines for how to ask the case, in fact, most of the judges can play freely, just like a case, similar to this case, the suspects are all women who colluded with adulterers to murder their husbands, the previous judge sentenced the woman to the murderer without asking, after he left office, another judge thought that the "adulterer" was a poor man, and the husband was both handsome and rich. It was impossible for the woman to abandon her handsome and wealthy husband, but instead hooked up with an "adulterer", so the verdict was changed to acquittal.
The two judges did not pass the rest of the evidence, and only relied on subjective assumptions to judge the case.
But the result was a world of difference.
This is by no means uncommon nowadays, but in fact, most local judges adopt subjective assumptions in their judgments.
Perhaps this is also one of the reasons why Hu Duan had no fear at all when he bent the law at first, he thought that even if Jiang went to the Criminal Department to retract his confession, this was also a common thing, and it didn't matter, it was just an ordinary civilian homicide case, where did the officials of the Criminal Department have the patience to interrogate him personally, it was nothing more than to remand for retrial, and he would have a way to clean up the mess when he arrived.
Therefore, when Zhao Zhouzun suddenly changed the way of interrogating one by one, and deliberately confronted Jiang and Zhang Yujiao in court, although Hu Duan's nerves were more tense, he had no position or reason to object.
Zhang also insisted that the deceased Wu Dagui was at dinner at her home on the night of the crime and pushed the cup with Wu Ergui, and the confession of the wine and food part was no different from what Wu Ergui and Wu Lao Niang complained, but as soon as her voice fell, Jiang immediately questioned: "The deceased husband has always been unable to drink millet burn, and if he is slightly stained, he will get a rash all over his body, and Zhang's confession that her two husbands and wives used the Fenhe millet of Ma Kidnapper's house to entertain the deceased husband has been fake, if the state does not believe it, he can summon Dongxu Ma Kidnapper to testify, His family's sake brewing in that area has been the livelihood of his ancestors and grandchildren for generations, so have my family ever gone to him to buy a jar of millet over the years? ”
Seeing that Jiang Shi said so firmly, Zhang Shi panicked all of a sudden, and he didn't have time to think about it carefully, so he subconsciously changed his confession: "Even if this is the case, it should be that the concubine's memory has been wrong, after all, it has been more than half a year, and the details of the wine and food were not asked during the previous trial, and it is reasonable that the memory is not clear." ”
If the experienced judge in judging the case can find the flaws and open the gap from Zhang's remarks, although Zhao Zhouzun is not experienced but a layman, but there is Lan Ting to give him advice, in fact, when the father and son discussed how to interrogate, they deliberately leaked the matter of the wine and diet on the night of the case to Hu Duan's ears and eyes, knowing that Hu Duan would inevitably instigate the Wu family to confess, as for Jiang's saying that the deceased could not drink millet burning, it was actually a lie, if the Wu family and several people were talking about the wine they confessed, Jiang will also use this set of statements, the intention is to let Zhang's flaws be exposed.
Zhao Zhouzun then slapped the shocked wood on the ground, and reprimanded solemnly: "Zhang's confession in the public court is cunning, and this official ordered him to be tortured according to the law!" ”
At this moment, Mo said that Zhang's expression changed greatly, and even Hu Duan couldn't sit still anymore, he almost immediately protested: "Zhao Zhouzun, the lower officials think that Zhang's defense is indeed reasonable, but because her memory is not so clear for a while, Zhao Zhouzun will torture her, which is suspected of being beaten into a trick!" ”
Although Tang Wei, the inspector who was also listening to the trial, was in Zhao Zhouzun's camp, he also felt that the reason for the blatant torture of the Zhang family was indeed too far-fetched, and he wanted to support, but he couldn't find any reason to support it for a while, so he was so anxious that his brows furrowed tightly, his eyes flickered at the state zun in the upper seat, and at Hu Tong's judgment, which was also extremely strong in the lower seat, and his face was gloomy.
And Liu Ba, the official of the torture room who had long been enveloped by Hu Duan, was indeed an experienced little official, he realized that Zhao Zhouzun was deliberately deceiving Zhang's family, so he hurriedly stepped forward and whispered a few words to Hu Duan, and when Hu Duan heard it, he was even more confident.
"Since it is a confrontation in the court, why don't you even call Wu Lao Niang, Wu Ergui's mother and son to the court again to interrogate, and see whether the testimony of the prisoner Jiang is true or not."
When Zhang heard this reminder, he immediately realized that he was almost deceived.
She didn't know if her uncle was jealous of the soju made by millet beams, and her mother-in-law and husband didn't know either? If the uncle really had a rash when he touched the fever, how could he ignore this taboo of the uncle when he first confessed? Hu Tong's judgment of the word "again" is to remind her that the mother and son have been summoned first, and the confession is no different from hers, and she should not change her confession because of Jiang's statement.
So Zhang's changed his words again: "The state lord Mingjian, it is clear that the guilty wife Jiang is lying, so he misled the concubine to suspect that there is a deviation in her memory, and the events of the day, the mother-in-law and the grandson remember it clearly, that is, the millet of the hemp kidnapper family was used to entertain the uncle." ”
Hu Duan let out a long breath: This woman is not stupid.
Tang Wei's brows furrowed even tighter: Now the case seems to be more and more unclear?
I saw that Zhao Zhouzun was as high-spirited as Hong Zhong: "Zhang, how do you know that Wu Yu and Wu Ergui's evidence is exactly the same as yours?" ”