Note 609 — HUMAN COMBUSTION.
Reading edition
See case of Marie-anne Jauffret, A. D. 1779, (Foderé, vol. iii, p. 200) where also see other cases in illustration of this curious subject. Foderè alludes to some cases where in consequence of combustion, possibly spontaneous, persons have been accused and condemned for murder. Tom. 3, p. 204. See also Maclaurin’s Crim. Ca. p. 177 n. and 754.