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Why Is Sherlock Holmes Innocent

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Harry Bastable Mrs.Hiles 3/5/16 Period 1 Sherlock Is innocent Sherlock Holmes was not guilty for the accidental death of Dr.Roylott for a mutinous of reasons. He was defending his own life, he could not have possibly known exactly where Dr.Roylott was, and lastly, Dr.Roylott knew the severities of owning a vicious, lethal swamp adder; he should have been more careful. Sherlock had to act swiftly in order to save his own life from a threatening serpent; he had no choice but to try to frighten it off back to where it slithered from, thus killing Dr.Roylott in the process. Sherlock has evidence to prove his innocence due to the fact that he was clearly protecting his own existence; he was not about to wait around for a highly lethal cold-blooded killer to feast upon him. The frightened detective recused his own fate by instinctively pushed the snake harshly away from his space in order to prevent a disastrous outcome. Sherlock was defending himself from danger or else he would have had the same result as Dr.Roylott and Julia Stoner had succumb to. The snake’s ferocious temper rose as he bit Dr.Roylott to …show more content…

He studied the snake to become what some would consider an expert of indian animals yet he took no precautionary measures to prevent accidents like that from occurring. His knowledge include the fact that one bite from the Indian swamp adder could kill a man within seconds yet he decided to sit in the lane of the furiously returning snake whom had blood on its mind. He stayed in the same chair overtime he plotted to kill using the snake, waiting for the serpent to crawl back through to his chamber. Although a doctor, Dr.Roylott was oblivious to the likely outcomes of dealing with a murderous ophidian. Sherlock was not to point finger at for the misfortune yet the haphazardness of Dr.Roylott was to blame for his own miserable poisonous

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