A case of shot gun injury

The history of the case goes like this. An elderly Hindu male had affection with a middle aged Muslim widow. He used help her by all means. This affair went for a period when he was no longer able to tolerate the monetary extraction. One afternoon when she was washing her clothes in the nearby river he shot her with a shotgun. She died & he consumed poison( organophosphorous compound) & admitted in a hospital & recovered to meet the trial
The trial was at additional sessions,Manjery. Thrice the case was adjourned. The defence counsel was the son of former director general of prosecutions. He told me he is able to thrive well because of one or two doctors in the same speciality supporting him; mainly making him knowlegable with forensic pathology tit-bits to cross examine the medical witness. I told him you are very lucky.

In this case also he tried his level best with assisted knowledge but failed miserably. When the court was about to be adjourned he informed me that during the previous trail for other cases by represented by him & medical expert myself ;all the cases ended in conviction. I told him in reply that you were given good coaching by experts & what happened?

The defence he put forward was " COMMATIO - CORDIS" - a non penetrating trivial injury involving heart which affects the electrical conduction of the heart. This kind of information can be fed only by a forensic medicine specialist. In this case the firing was from a distance ,made out by spread of shots. There were mutiple penetrating injuries by pellets involving,heart,lungs & liver. So many pellets were recovered.
dr.n.rajaram