[Avodah] Eidut

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, December 10, 2006 9:00 am, Shoshana L. Boublil wrote:
: Halachically, is a victim of a crime supposed to go to a Beit Din and report
: the crime?
: Does it change things if he knows who performed the crime?

Isn't this straightforward teviah, not eidus?

If one doesn't know the crime, who in bayis sheini society was charged with
finding the criminal? The shoterim? I pictured them more as an executive
branch than part of penology, but I have no idea where that picture came from.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi