Did he solve the issue basically perfectly for the time, and how might a modern judge have achieved the presumably correct and same verdict short of the more gruesome original hypothetical approach
Did he solve the issue basically perfectly for the time, and how might a modern judge have achieved the presumably correct and same verdict short of the more gruesome original hypothetical approach
The modern legal system would have both parties compile evidence for their case, then present their cases to a judge. Probably the most compelling would be witnesses who could attest that the baby was one woman’s or anothers, or else pictures of the woman holding the baby as a newborn. The judge would decide who had the most compelling case, then go to lunch.