Section 218 On-site Investigation
The stationed policeman stood there obediently and was scolded by Quan Quan - Quan Quan was qualified to scold him because Quan Quan had done police work in the old time and space. [No pop-up novel website] If his ambitions were not for intelligence and the navy, he would have been in a high-level position in the police headquarters, at least no lower than Mu Min.
The police headquarters has formulated detailed work procedures and service manuals for the naturalized police officers. Many things have been simplified to make them as easy to understand as possible. However, if you go to the "Police Cabinet" and take a look, you will find that the service level of the stationed police officers can only be used as follows. To describe it, it's a complete mess. In comparison, the professional quality of the police at several police stations is much better. It seems that it is easier to get on the right track if there are elders to take care of things.
Now there is a local soldier available for dispatch, who is much better than the ignorant policeman. At this moment, Xu allowed him to lead the way to inquire about the news.
An Xi had already obtained a confession from the "Jianghu" in the county jail - but according to Ma Jia's suggestion and in accordance with modern legal concepts, it was appropriate to call him "suspect" instead.
As for the "wife" - renamed "the client" - Ma Jiazheng temporarily sent her to the county prison for "protective detention" - he was deeply afraid that some of the man's clan would pull off some tricks, such as seizing a prisoner and sinking a pig cage. Then things will get serious.
Now I am allowed to collect the communication evidence of the two people in person. After some discussion, the case handlers from the Law Society found that this case was a bit bad. They checked the relevant provisions of the Ming Law and the Da Gao, and found out that the problem was related to theft. The Ming Law stipulated that unless the person "takes the money" on the spot, the stolen goods will be stolen. All are obtained, otherwise it is "no matter what is captured by the police", which means that the government does not care if it is just based on hearsay or after the fact.
Even if they were caught on the spot, it would only be a "stick ninety-year-old woman" who married off her husband and sold her to her husband. If the husband wanted to stay, it was restricted to marry, sell and marry her husband.
From this point of view, the actual enforcement of the Ming Dynasty law against the crime of communion is not very strong, and it can even be said to be very slight. The so-called "severe" is just that the law exempts me from the crime of "killing immediately". Moreover, the murder of a married woman after the incident is still subject to legal liability.
"I think this legal thought is quite advanced." An Xi commented, "It emphasizes evidence."
"Advanced is advanced, but our case will be difficult." Xu Xu thought, this way, according to the Ming Dynasty law, this "cook" will have nothing to do. The sailor failed to "catch him in bed", it was just "hearsay". To put it bluntly, there was no evidence. According to the Ming Dynasty Law, it was the result of "don't comment". This was inconsistent with their original tone of "destroying military marriages".
"It's okay, he admitted it." Because An Xi personally talked to the "suspect" and the "person involved", the two admitted that they did have some communication and had been secretly communicating with each other for about three or four months.
"Of course oral confessions are good. But we need to create a legal concept that emphasizes circumstantial and material evidence as well as oral confessions." Ma Jia said, "The legal philosophy of ancient society is to emphasize oral confessions, which is why torture and torture are used. , this habit has continued to later generations. Our idea is that we need evidence as well as oral confessions."
The modern "zero confession" case handling method is not feasible in this time and space - the Time Travel Group simply does not have the technology and professional capabilities. Advanced ideas must have an advanced foundation. However, physical evidence and circumstantial evidence represent an advanced direction after all, and are more convincing to the people than oral confessions. Ma Jia hopes to convey this concept through this case.
Xu was led by Fu Fu and went to the suspect's home first. The suspect and the sailor both lived in the East Village of Meiyang Village, and both families were from Fujian as farmers. However, the suspect's family came earlier and settled here more than ten years ago.
"I heard that the old man from his family came very early and worked as a laborer in the village. He died a few years ago. He left three sons. This man had two brothers, and his mother should still be alive." Fu Fubian Leading the way, talking about the family's situation.
The roads in the East Village have been paved with gravel, and the streets in the village are also very clean, but the overall quality is obviously not as good as that in the West Village, where immigrants live. Xu Xu thought, it would be strange if there were no conflicts between the natives and immigrants! He thought and asked casually:
"What about the sailor family?"
"He is also a farmer from Fujian, a laborer..."
Allow me to record it in my mind while listening. I also find it a bit unbelievable, because according to the interrogation record, the suspect is a young man of 16 years old, and the "party" is already nearly forty years old. Although she worked as a salesperson in Dongshi for the past two years and had no worries about food and clothing, she was not old in appearance, but according to the standards of the time, she was still a half-old woman. The soldier said that this woman had given birth to three or four children. There is nothing attractive about the photos in the case file. According to the otakus, "it's impossible to get hard at all." If An Xi hadn't gone to take the confession in person, both of them would have admitted that it was indeed the case, and Xu Xu might even have thought that it was probably her jealous husband who was making the suspicion.
Xu Xu asked: "He is a young man, how can he have such a passionate fight with this half-old woman?"
Fu Fugu laughed twice: "Sir, we have always had more men than women here. The farmers who came from the mainland were originally poor, and most of them did not have wives; and without money, it is harder to get a wife than to go to heaven - ―”
When he was a domestic servant, Fu Buer often used Fu Xi, Fu Yue and Fu Yijin as bargaining chips to encourage them to work hard - the difficulty of getting a wife was a major problem in Hainan states and counties in the Ming Dynasty.
"That's right." Xuancheng nodded. That would make sense.
As they walked, a group of children and idle people followed behind them. Everyone has heard that the chief is going to "trial a case" - this kind of common case is always a popular case for the people, and everyone wants to watch it.
The two of them walked all the way to the end of the village. Fu Fu pointed to two houses, which were common farmhouses here. They had bamboo and wooden roof trusses, bamboo strips walls covered with yellow mud, and straw roofs.
But poverty also has levels: the straw on a roof has turned black, and weeds have grown out. The yellow mud is cracked, and rotten bamboo strips are exposed in many places. In some places, they are simply broken and made of reeds. It was half open, the room was dark, and I could smell a stench before I even got close. In terms of the level of dilapidation, it is probably not an exaggeration to say that it is the poorest in the village.
The other one is much better. The straw is new from this summer's rice harvest and is still golden. The yellow mud wall is smeared with white plaster and is neatly repaired. It is made of wood and is currently closed. There is a lock with a wooden sign with the word "Military Family" nailed on it.
Without Fu Fu's explanation, Xu Xu knew who the two families were. He looked around, and there was a pile of wood not far away - it was probably used by a family to build a house, and it had been dried. He walked to the wood and sat down, and asked Fu Fu to call all the family members of the two families in the village, as well as neighbors and friends.
"Chief, you want to examine the case."
"No, this is not a trial, it's about understanding the situation." Xu Xu said, "The trial has to go to court."
"You want to ask questions about criminals, why don't you call it a trial?"
"This is not a prisoner, but circumstantial evidence." Xu Xu patiently explained the difference and gave the soldier some legal education, thinking that he should also conduct legal education activities in the army in the future.
Fu Fu nodded repeatedly: "I will find someone for you right now."
The idle people in the village heard that the chief was going to "trial a case", and many people came to watch the fun. There was a lot of noise. Even the stationed police officers and Fu Buer heard the news and came to maintain order. Li Li didn't care about this, and started asking the suspect's mother who was the first to arrive at the scene.
The suspect's mother spoke Hokkien. Fortunately, Fu Fu had been dealing with farmers since he was a child and knew the dialect, so he temporarily acted as a translator and took notes.
Xu Xu took a look at the woman in front of him. At first glance, she looked old enough to be sixty or seventy years old, but upon closer inspection, she didn't seem that old.
The woman knelt down when she saw Xu Xu, Xu Xu waved his hand: "Stand up and speak."
"A civilian woman doesn't dare." She probably knew that her son had committed a crime and was disgraced, so the woman did not dare to raise her head.
"Stand up and talk, we don't like this."
Fu Fu also helped: "Stand up if I ask you to stand up. This is an Australian rule."
Xu Xu waited for her to stand up and asked a few personal questions casually, and then he realized that she was not yet fifty, but her hair was already gray, her face was full of wrinkles, and she looked very old. The dress she is wearing is a local dyed blue homespun cloth - this homespun cloth is very strong and thick enough for copper coins, but the clothes on her body are already patched with patches, and the blue color has faded away in some places, revealing the white cloth body. This shows how long the history of this dress is.
Xu Xu asked about the suspect and the person involved, and the woman did not hold back. She told everything and admitted that it was indeed the case:
It was because the client found a job as a nanny in Dongshi City, which provided all-inclusive accommodation and food, and her husband was in the army, so there was no one to take care of the family.
"... She was afraid that both her husband and wife had left the house and there would be no one to take care of the vegetable garden, so she entrusted us, mother and son, to take care of it. My son helped her plant the garden every day and carried the vegetables to the market to sell. The money he got was shared with her in half. . For ten days and a half, I still have to go to Dongshi to send money and food to her..."
In the process of sending money and food like this, the relationship between the two people gradually warmed up.
"... She saw that my family was poor, so she often came to my house to seduce my son under the guise of giving money to my mother and son. Our two families are from the same hometown and have been neighbors for many years. If I knew that she had such thoughts, I would definitely not accept her Money!" The more the woman spoke, the angrier she became, as if her son was a good boy but was seduced by a fox spirit.
"You have three sons, how come your life is so miserable?" Xu Xu felt strange. If there were three strong laborers in the family, according to the current wage level of domestic helpers, even if they did not work in the factory or on the construction site, they would just be carried in the countryside. Even the income from living would not lead to such a miserable life. a! ~!
