The Coroner's Cross Examination

A defending attorney was cross examining a coroner.

The attorney asks:

- Before you signed the death certificate had you taken the man's pulse?

The coroner says:

- No.

The attorney then asks:

- Did you listen for a heart beat?

- No.

- So when you signed the death certificate you had not taken any steps to make sure the man was dead, had you?

The corner, now tired of the brow beating says:

- Well, let me put it this way. The man's brain was sitting in a jar on my desk, but for all I know he could be out there practicing law somewhere.