Legal Opinion

People v. Gomolak

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided February 25, 1972No. 46 June Term 1971, Docket No. 53,193PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Per curiam

If the professionally revered Henry Campbell Black’s current ghost has it right, “forensic medicine” means (Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th ed, p 777):

“Forensic Medicine, or medical jurisprudence, as it is also called, is ‘that science which teaches the application of every branch of medical knowledge to the purposes of the law; hence its limits are, on the one hand, the requirements of the law, and, on the other, the whole range of medicine. Anatomy, physiology, medicine, surgery, chemistry, physics, and botany lend their aid as necessity arises; and in some cases all these branches of science…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Pate v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. People v. GOMOLAKMichigan Court of Appeals · 1971

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. People v. LucasMichigan Court of Appeals · 1973
  2. People v. LucasMichigan Supreme Court · 1975
  3. People v. SkowronskiMichigan Court of Appeals · 1975
  4. People v. BlockerMichigan Court of Appeals · 1973
  5. People v. OverbyMichigan Court of Appeals · 1972

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