Song thus became the first person in ROC history to be sacrificed over the constitution. There was no doubt about Yuan's complicity-telegrams from Yuan arranging the murder were found in the assassin's home-and public opinion was outraged. But those were the days when political power grew out of the barrel of a gun, so what could the courts do to Yuan Shikai?
宋教仁是中華民國史上為憲法犧牲的第一人，而「宋案」儘管從兇手家中蒐出與袁世凱密通的電報等證據，罪證確鑿，輿論也痛加撻伐，但在那個槍桿子出政權的年代，法院又怎奈何得了袁世凱？