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him. The patient was cured in thirty-one days, with the result that an opening remained in the abdominal

region which produced a hernia which exposed the patient to grave accidents.

The guilt of the accused was based on the statements of the three neighbours who were attracted by the

cried of the wife of the complainant and who were then informed of what had taken place and by the

absence and disappearance of the accused from his house since the date of the occurrence, without

having appeared in spite of the judicial citations until he was arrested.

He was convicted for the said crime above stated in the facts with aggravating circumstances of the

darkness and silence of the night, attacking in his own house without the victim having provoked or given

a reason for the deed.