SIGNIFICANCE OF CORPUS DELICTI

Aghayev I.B.
Significance of corpus delicti.
Herald of the Baku State University. Series of social and political sciences.
Baku, 2015, No. 1–2, pp. 79—91. 1,1 quires.

The considered paper speaks on significance of corpus delicti. The author states that corpus delicti is sole, necessary and sufficient ground for criminal liability and sole instrument for the qualification of crimes. There are discussed such principles of crime qualification as objectivity, validity, accuracy and completeness of the qualification. Further, it is reasoned that the main issue is how to choose those features, which have a qualifying value. The construction of corpus delicti serves for that. Thus, corpus delicti, that contains necessary features for recognizing a person as guilty of committing a certain crime, operates as legislative model of qualifying the socially dangerous act. The necessity of features consists in the fact that missing at least one of them results with the absence of corpus delicti itself.