45._—A man found hanging. The examiner declared that he had hung himself. Eight years afterward, suspicion of violence. A commission appointed. The protocol had shown the blood fluid; a red-brown dry furrow around the neck; ecchymoses in connective tissues of same; the entire back and posterior parts of limbs showed post-mortem suggillation. The commission declared that the man had been strangled, had lain for at least three hours on his back, and then been hung up. The murderer confessed.