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Quotes About Inquest

The inquest, when it was held, was short and disappointing. Evidence of identification was given by the husband, and the only other evidence was medical. Heather Badcock had died as a result of four grains of hy-ethyl-dexyl-barbo-quinde-lorytate, or, let us be frank, some such name. There was no evidence to show how the drug was administered.
~ Agatha Christie
The inquest proceeded smoothly, evidence showing that Cork had acted reasonably. But the county attorney, Warren Evans, who was a crony of Robert Parrant, asked Cork a question that tilted the whole world of the inquest. "Why did you shoot six times, Sheriff? Shoot even after the man was down?
~ William Kent Krueger
This chapter begins an inquest. The basic finding: the postwar bargain was built more on a convergence of circumstances than on durable, permanent changes. The bargain proved surprisingly fragile, once capitalists regained their normal, temporarily suppressed powers in a still-capitalist economy. This shift occurred both in national politics and in the new globalization.
~ Robert Kuttner
I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.
~ Alex Campbell
The truth is that no one ever knew how Joseph Buquet met his death. The verdict at the inquest was natural suicide. In
~ Gaston Leroux
On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death by the visitation of God. What could the world do without juries?
~ Mark Twain
Rebecca, see if you can get a twenty on Alex Hammond. I
~ Simon Wood
This is fine living, indeed," Neddie cried. "Poor Collingforth is charged with murder, and you can do nothing but consume a quantity of cake!" I closed my book and surveyed him narrowly. "Lizzy had informed me the you are invariably peevish when suffering the pangs of hunger. Call for some more cake, I beg, and tell me of the inquest.
~ Stephanie Barron
But then, of course, there are always unanswered questions. Those questions lead to more questions, with the circularity of the endless inquest, keeping people like me in business. We can and should always poke at the questions of motivation. And we will. There never is a final draft of history.
~ Bob Woodward
Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.
~ Rosie Batty
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
~ Helen Rowland
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
~ Helen Rowland
Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.
~ Leonard Cohen
The six-man inquest jury assembled was composed of local residents, men whose lives strikingly resembled that of the murdered Robert Newsom.
~ Unknown