... bedue to accident, homicide, or suicide.Blackening of the wound, singeing of thehair, scorching of the skin and clothing,show that the weapon was fired at closequarters, whilst blackening of ... inch. Allmammalian red corpuscles have thesame shape, except those of the camel,which are oval. The corpuscles of birds,fishes, reptiles, and amphibians, areoval and nucleated. The corpuscles ... of the handpoints to suicide. Even when the weaponis fired quite close there may be noblackening of the skin, and the hand isnot always blackened in cases ofsuicide. Smokeless powder does...