he Royal Chancellery of Granada and criminal matters: Expert evidence and witness proof for execution of a pregnant woman in Torredonjimeno (Jaén) in 1598
Abstract
This article will analyse and edit a file kept at the Royal Chancellery of Granada. It contains the information and witness proof made by scrivener Francisco García de Villamayor in the town of Torredonjimeno (Jaén) in the year of 1598, at the request of the Criminal Justices of the Granada Audience, on the occasion of the execution of a pregnant woman, and which was heard by that Court through appellation. The document, which shows the lifting of the corpse of the executed woman and the autopsy as expert evidence, is a rare source of knowledge for the history of prosecution, institutional history, history of women and history of medicine.
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