Charles Cornu

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Charles Cornu (* 1888 in Geneva ; † September 23, 1966 in Geneva) was a Swiss lawyer .

Life

Cornu studied law at the University of Geneva . In 1917 he became deputy public prosecutor. In 1921 he became a judge at the civil court of first instance. In 1932 he was elected Attorney General of Geneva . He held this position until 1960. His predecessor in office was Georges Foëx , his successor Jean Eger . He was then President of the Geneva Court of Cassation until his death.

Alongside Bernard Bertossa , Bernard Corboz , Raymond Foëx and Jean Eger, he is one of the most important public prosecutors in Geneva.

Cornu was also President of the Fondations des émissions de Radio-Geneva ( Foundation of the Broadcasts of Radio-Genève ) and President of the Société de Radio-diffusion et télévision romande .

Jaccoud case

As the prosecutor in the " Jaccoud Affair ", Cornu played a key role in the conviction of Pierre Jaccoud , according to a contemporary article by Ursula von Kardorff :

Attorney General Cornu hurled his indictment speech from the height of his seat. His brawny, furrowed face with the bitterly drawn-down corners of his mouth looked like an ancient tragedy mask . His words were filled with hatred. And these two men, the one up there and the one down here in the hospital chair, used to call each other 'you'. It is as if their hatred runs like a poison green thread through the whole process. It was the last the seventy-year-old public prosecutor led before retiring. But why was he still running this one?
His charge was based on circumstantial evidence. Link after link of the chain interlocked. Or were there tiny gaps that let the chain fall apart? In any case: Cornu embodied the virtue of the Calvinist city. And it sounded like J'accuse when he said Jaccoud. But how contemptuously he hurled out the word: 'I've seen his love nest, c'etait moche et mal meublé.'
No one gave Pierre Jaccoud a chance after this plea. But who knows whether all this really happened, as Cornu so impressively pictured it? Did the good old Charles Zumbach unsuspectingly lead the late visitor Jaccoud into the studio of his absent son? And what happened then? Was Jaccoud looking for the incriminating letters and photos and was surprised? Was that why he shot the man and stabbed him - in tremendous excitement - still bestially with the dagger in the bleeding body?

Fonts

  • You partage de la législation entre la confedération et les cantons en matière de droit pénal. Geneva (1943).
  • Le pourvoi en nullité et l'institution du jury . RPS 59 (1945)
  • Projets de lois de procédure pénale , Conference of the Société genevoise de droit et de législation , 1955.

Web links

  • Obituary in: Journal de Genève , September 24, 1966

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ geneve.ch ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Archives of the newspaper  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geneve.ch
  2. ↑ Ursula von Kardorff : Mordsache Jaccoud - the "trial of the year" . In: Die Zeit , No. 7/1960.
  3. ↑ semainejudiciaire.ch ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sgdl.ch
personal data
SURNAME Cornu, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Geneva Public Prosecutor
DATE OF BIRTH 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1966
Place of death Geneva