In re the Personal Restraint of Quackenbush

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• a common law conviction for murder could be sustained upon testimony of witness without production of body
• a common law conviction for murder could be sustained upon testimony of witness without production of body
• Texas provision inspired by desire to avoid conviction and punishment of innocent persons, stating “we could cite hundreds of cases in which the innocent have been punished under the old rule, which did not require the body or a portion of it, to be found.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).