[dsc]

"Is it me, or is this just a tad bit illogical?"

I don't know that trial by ordeal has been thought logical for a few hundred years, at least.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

yeah, but by proxy? lol!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I don't know that trial by ordeal has been thought logical for a few hundred years, at least.

Well no. But at the time trial by ordeal was weighed very very heavily in favor of the accused.

William Rufus of England once had fifty men brought before him accused of breaking the forest laws. They all demanded trial by ordeal and they all got off.