Crossword-Solution: DELICTI 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The friendship of the unrighteous is never of long duration; the two worthies had it seems quarrelled in prison; Candelas having accused the other of bad faith and an undue appropriation to his own use of the _corpus delicti_ in various robberies which they had committed in company.

Chaussier, had volunteered the remark that the absence of any trace of poison in the portions of Auguste Ballet's body submitted to analysis, constituted an absence of the corpus delicti.

Use vegetable poisons; poison your fathers, poison your mothers, poison all your families, and their inheritance will be yours--fear nothing; you will go unpunished! You have committed murder by poisoning, it is true; but the corpus delicti will not be there because it can't be there!" This was a case, he urged, of circumstantial evidence.

Without these teeth the proof of the corpus delicti would have been incomplete, and so afforded Webster a fair chance of acquittal.

Melville Davisson Post Introduction to The Corpus Delicti The high ground of the field of crime has not been explored; it has not even been entered.