It doesn’t really matter who the dead body was, their job is the same. And in these rural counties things work different, it ain’t CSI in the hinterlands, it’s a lot more Old West style, more Roy Bean. JPs get there when they get there and the process is very geared towards them not having to get there. It’s smoother now with cellphones, 100 years ago in these places it could have taken weeks for the officials to get there on their normal rotation and sign off on the paperwork.
Yep, they have both computers and cell phones.
“It doesn’t really matter who the dead body was, their job is the same.”
No, it’s not the same.
Scalia may not have been young, but he held a high important office. There are people of means who wanted Scalia out of the way.