Question

Corpus delicti mean ______.

• A. Fake evidence of an offence
• B. Hearsay evidence of an offence
• C. Lack of evidence of an offence
• D. An evidence which constitute an offence

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

An evidence which constitute an offence

Corpus delicti or in Latin, a "body of the crime"; is a term referring to the principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime. Black's Law Dictionary defines "corpus delicti" as: "the fact of a crime having been actually committed". It is therefore, the basic element or elements of a crime in which the body of facts or evidence showing that a crime has been committed