inflicted during life may be inverted, instead of everted, if a thin
layer of muscular fibres is attached directly to the deep surface of
the skin, as is the case in the scrotum. The eversion of the edges of
the skin is due to their elasticity, and ceases to occur as soon as the
skin loses its vitality. Consequently eversion ceases to occur soon
after death, within a very few hours. A wound in which the edges are
neither inverted or everted was therefore inflicted after death. If
this sign is present and marked, the wound was inflicted during life or
within two or three hours or less after death. If this sign is present
but very slightly marked, the wound may have been made even somewhat
longer after death.