0p0 Chapter 164 Do you want to convict someone of a wrongful conviction?
Chapter 164 Do you want to convict someone of a wrongful conviction?
"My Lord... My Lord... This matter really has nothing to do with me! This is all I saw. I told you everything I saw."
Faced with such a major event, the Qin family's servant was timid and stammered as he told everything he had seen.
The Jing Ya Ling in the hall frowned and said, "You mean, you didn't see the whole process of Xie Shiyu killing people, you only saw him calling for help?"
"Sir, it is still unknown whether Xie Shiyu is saving people or killing people!" The tragic Prime Minister Qin suddenly spoke up and interrupted the words of the Jingya Order.
The Jing Ya Ling was stunned. The status of Qin Xiang was much higher than his own! His words carried a lot of weight. No matter whether Xie Shiyu saved people or killed people, it was obvious that he wanted to punish Xie Shiyu.
"Xie Shiyu, you said you just happened to pass by there. Why did you pass by there? You just happened to pass by the door of my son's private room and just happened to see my son dead? Isn't this too much of a coincidence?"
Prime Minister Qin asked Xie Shiyu in a cold tone.
Xie Shiyu lowered his eyes and clenched his fists. After a moment, he raised his head again and said, "Is it strange for me to go to a restaurant to drink and eat? Could it be that the restaurant is opened by the Qin family? Can't I go?"
When Xie Shiyu said this, Qin Xiang's face changed instantly and he said, "You are simply talking nonsense. Is there any need to distinguish between things with irrefutable evidence? If you didn't kill my son, then the man was someone else?"
Xie Shiyu refused to admit it and said, "Good people don't get good rewards! I clearly saved your son, but you said I killed someone? If I really killed someone, why didn't I run away? Why did I stay at the scene and wait for someone to catch me?"
"You just had a fight with my son yesterday, would you be kind enough to save him?" After Qin Xiang finished speaking, he turned around and looked at the Jing Ya Ling, and said sternly: "Sir, the evidence is conclusive, is there still a need for a verdict? He was the only one there at the time, so naturally he could say whatever he wanted!"
"This... is indeed a bit suspicious..."
The Beijing Yamen Order is also in a difficult position. It would not be appropriate to sentence Xie Shiyu all of a sudden, after all, there are doubts.
"Are there any other doubts? There are no other suspects now, and Xie Shiyu is the biggest suspect. If he is not the murderer, then who else could he be? If you, the magistrate of the capital, don't even have this much judgment, I think you'd better not do it."
Prime Minister Qin slammed the table and stood up, shouting, "You guys, hurry up and catch this murderer! Execute him on the spot!"
The position of Prime Minister Qin is higher than that of the Jing Ya Ling. When Prime Minister Qin said this, it would be difficult for the Jing Ya Ling to go against him because he does not have the ability to do so.
But these officers were in a dilemma. They didn't know what to do and whether they should listen to Prime Minister Qin.
"I am the prime minister. Don't I have the right to help you, a Beijing official, execute criminals?"
Prime Minister Qin stared at these people with sharp eyes, but his gaze was so oppressive that these officers did not dare to raise their heads or move.
Qin Xiang suddenly walked up to the Jing Ya Ling, threw the sentence on the ground, and shouted: "Hurry up and put this criminal in the cell. He will be executed at noon tomorrow! Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished!"
When the officers heard that they were going to be punished for one crime, they suddenly became anxious and started to act immediately, fearing that if they were slow, Prime Minister Qin would be unhappy and punish them.
They were about to take Xie Shiyu down to the prison, but Xie Shiyu resisted and shouted at Prime Minister Qin: "What right do you have to punish me? This matter has not been clarified yet! I didn't kill anyone, so you can't punish me!"
"You were the only one at the scene at that time. If it wasn't you who killed the person, who else could it be! Take him away! If he resists, break his hands and feet and drag him away!" Qin Xiang shouted sternly.
Xie Shiyu was still resisting desperately, so the officers, receiving the order, naturally picked up sticks and started to take action.
Just at this moment, a voice suddenly came from outside.
"slow!"
Suddenly, several people came in from outside the yamen, poured into the court one by one, and then stood at the side. Then, a young man with a noble appearance walked in.
When Prime Minister Qin saw the person coming, he was shocked and hurried forward to greet him, "Your Highness, why are you here?"
The person who came was the Crown Prince Li Kui.
When the prince walked in, the chief judge stood up and made way for him.
The prince walked up to the high seat very naturally and sat down, then looked down at the messy people in the hall.
"I heard that the son of the Xie family killed Prime Minister Qin's son. I came to take a look. Jing Ya Ling, you can continue the trial and do what you should do!"
The prince looked at the chief judge and motioned him to sit down in the hall to continue the trial.
"Your Highness, the case has been tried. Xie Shiyu killed my son and is sentenced to death. He will be beheaded at noon tomorrow!" Prime Minister Qin said hurriedly.
"Is the trial over? Jingya Ling? I was eavesdropping outside for a long time just now, but I didn't seem to hear you say a few words about the trial." The prince looked at the Jingya Ling.
"Yes..." The imperial magistrate looked at Prime Minister Qin. It was indeed not him who judged the case just now! It was Prime Minister Qin who made the judgment, but he had no choice but to challenge Prime Minister Qin. Although there were doubts, he could let it go. He could only blame the Xie family for not sending anyone to confront Prime Minister Qin in court!
He is also helpless.
However, the Xie family did not come, but the prince did. I don’t know what the prince meant by that. I have never heard of any connection between the prince and the Xie family.
The prince suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Captain of the Imperial Court, please try again after the trial is over. This prince will also like to see how good you are at judging cases."
When the imperial magistrate heard this, he could only hastily agree, saying, "Yes! I will examine it again."
The imperial yamen commander turned around and said to everyone in the hall, "Open the court!"
"mighty--"
A sense of oppression suddenly arose in the classroom again.
The Beijing yamen continued to interrogate Xie Shiyu and his lovers. Of course, the result was the same. No one saw Xie Shiyu kill anyone, they only heard Xie Shiyu's shouting.
"Your Highness, if it wasn't Xie Shiyu who killed someone, who else could it be? Don't listen to his one-sided story! He had a motive for committing the crime!" Prime Minister Qin was not a fool. He could obviously see that the prince came to support Xie Shiyu.
Before the prince could speak, Xie Shiyu suddenly spoke up: "Who knows who killed your son? Your son used to do all kinds of evil! How many people in the capital hate him? Which of them doesn't have more motives than me to commit the crime? I just wanted to rescue him out of kindness, but you framed me for murder. If that's the case, how many people in this world would save people again?"
"Don't confuse the public, you kid! If someone else really killed my son, then who was this person? Where was he? Now that we can't find who killed him, then you are the murderer and you can't get away with it!" Qin Xiang was about to bite Xie Shiyu to death.
Xie Shiyu snorted coldly: "Even if that's the case, I'm just a suspect, and I can't prove that I killed anyone! Are you trying to convict someone of a wrongful conviction?"
Xie Shiyu refused to admit that he had killed anyone and would not admit it until his death.
Although he has been in the business for so many years, he is not really stupid! If he lets go even a little, not only will he die without a burial place, but he may also bring trouble to his family.