45._—A man found hanging. The examiner declared that he had hung
himself. Eight years afterward, suspicion of violence. A commission
appointed. The protocol had shown the blood fluid; a red-brown dry
furrow around the neck; ecchymoses in connective tissues of same;
the entire back and posterior parts of limbs showed post-mortem
suggillation. The commission declared that the man had been strangled,
had lain for at least three hours on his back, and then been hung up.
The murderer confessed.