Edmund was the one who had instructed Samson to commit an act of murder. Thus, he could be charged with voluntary manslaughter. There was no escape for him!
After all, in Oskian law, the one who instigated others to commit a crime would be regarded as the principal offender!
Edmund had ordered his men to kill. Despite not committing the act himself, once this matter was brought to court, it would at least be life imprisonment!
If the crime of poisoning Doris’s father was a