Originally posted by Doctored Whatsit
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So, with respect to your last question. It looks to me the doctor did not go to the inquest with the intention of giving a caveat. He was quite confident that the tables or graphs he used would be sufficient to give the coroner a reasonable time of death.
I suggest he was as surprised by the witness testimony as he could be that he did not expect to be forced to revise his calculations, which he could not do at the inquest.
He was perhaps astounded to hear a witness insist on the body not being there when his calculations suggested it should have been.
As a consequence he felt it necessary to offer a caveat, he knew what may have caused his calculations to go askew. So the best he could do was offer the caveat and leave it at that.
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