One assumes that there would be some degree of corruption involved when any person gets to decide whether anyone's guilty or innocent with impunity. Perhaps the

One assumes that there would be some degree of corruption involved when any person gets to decide whether anyone's guilty or innocent with impunity. Perhaps the rich would sometimes bribe the priest, or the priest would decide that that ugly jerk probably did steal that horse. Plus, getting the water to cool was probably pretty inexact, and as much as you might want to declare a hand unburnt, really bad burns all over your arm are pretty hard to hide.