Overview
Yan Sihu was a Commoner Offender.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
Places and affiliations
- At Yuci County, Shanxi 山西榆次縣
References in the histories
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 352Volume 352 Biographies 139: Jiang Cheng, Jin Guangti, Zu Zhiwang, Han Feng · 3 passages
道光四年，平反山西榆次縣民閻思虎獄，被議敘。
In 1824 he reversed the wrongful conviction of Yan Sihu of Yuci County, Shanxi, and was recommended for a merit citation.
初，思虎強姦趙二姑，知縣呂錫齡受賕，逼認和姦，趙二姑忿而自盡，親屬京控。
Originally Sihu had raped Zhao Ergu. Magistrate Lü Xiling took a bribe and forced her to confess to consensual adultery. Enraged, she killed herself, and her family appealed to Beijing.
御史梁中靖疏劾，提解刑部，審得實情是強非和，並原審各官賄囑、徇縱、回護諸弊狀，思虎論斬，趙二姑旌表，巡撫邱樹棠、按察使盧元偉及府縣各官，降革遣戍有差。
Censor Liang Zhongjing impeached the officials. The case went to the Ministry of Punishments, which found rape rather than consensual adultery and exposed bribery, favoritism, and cover-up in the original trial. Sihu was sentenced to death; Zhao Ergu was posthumously honored; Governor Qiu Shutang, Judicial Commissioner Lu Yuanwei, and the lower officials were demoted, dismissed, or exiled in varying degrees.