Law of Identification

Raja of Benares who was slain in battle by Kutub in 589 of the Hiji.ra was reconised among heaps of the slain by its artificial teeth which (9) Guy's Forensic Medicine."8 TEE LAW OF IDENTIFICATION were fixed in by gold wires and wedges.(i0) The scanty rmains of the body of the Marchioness of Salisbury discoveed in the ruins of the Hatfield House were also identified by the jawbone [...] The evidence on these points and the difference in the handwriting of the two men led the court to quash the sentence.('') Upon a trial for burglary where there was conflicting evidence as to the identity of the prisoner Mr. [...] In cases where the idetity of the deceased person is not known the observations of the expert pathologist on the external appearance of the deceased are of the highest value. [...] Some of the points in this case were: (a) The accused had double eye-teeth in the upper jaw a scar on the forehead the nail of the left forefinger sank in the flesh and four warts on the right hand—all peculiarities possessed by the true Martin Guerre. [...] (b) A comparison of the features of the claimant with a photographic portrait of the true Roger Tichborne showed the following differences: (i) the eyes of Roger Tichborne tended upwards from the nose those of the claimant tended downwards; (ii) the ears of the claimant were about onethird longer than those of Roger Tichborne; (iii) the central groove joining the nose to the upper lip was much wi