The Trial of William Freeman: For the Murder of John G. Van Nest, Including the Evidence and the Arguments of Counsel, with the Decision of the Supreme Court Granting a New Trial, and an Account of the Death of the Prisoner, and of the Post-mortem Examinaton of His Body by Amariah Brigham, M. D., and Others |
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... in his imprisonment on a charge of larceny , and introduced him to public notice as a felon . In the spring of 1840 , whilst Freeman was living with Depuy , his brother- 1 in - law , a Mrs. Martha Godfrey , of 18 THE TRIAL OF.
... in his imprisonment on a charge of larceny , and introduced him to public notice as a felon . In the spring of 1840 , whilst Freeman was living with Depuy , his brother- 1 in - law , a Mrs. Martha Godfrey , of 18 THE TRIAL OF.
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... charge , and to insist that he should be arrested again . This was finally done in June , and from that time , with the exception of a few days when Freeman was absent , until September following , both of them were detained for the ...
... charge , and to insist that he should be arrested again . This was finally done in June , and from that time , with the exception of a few days when Freeman was absent , until September following , both of them were detained for the ...
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... charge of stealing Mrs. Godfrey's horse . During the fall and winter he lived most of the time with his brother - in law , but occasionally at the houses of other colored people . He was some- times employed at sawing wood , but was ...
... charge of stealing Mrs. Godfrey's horse . During the fall and winter he lived most of the time with his brother - in law , but occasionally at the houses of other colored people . He was some- times employed at sawing wood , but was ...
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... charge the wretched assassin . The excitement of the occasion was unprecedented in this section of the State . It was thought the course of justice marked out by the law was too slow for the punishment of such an offender - that the ...
... charge the wretched assassin . The excitement of the occasion was unprecedented in this section of the State . It was thought the course of justice marked out by the law was too slow for the punishment of such an offender - that the ...
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... charges may be in favor of the accused ; that by the lavishment of money , appeals might be multiplied , and , by putting off the trial , witnesses may die . Why , none of us are safe under such a false sympathy as this ; for the mur ...
... charges may be in favor of the accused ; that by the lavishment of money , appeals might be multiplied , and , by putting off the trial , witnesses may die . Why , none of us are safe under such a false sympathy as this ; for the mur ...
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AMARIAH BRIGHAM answer appeared arrested Arsdale asked Auburn believe brain Brigham called and sworn capital punishment Cayuga County challenged for principal charge child committed conversation conviction count court crazy crime CROSS EXAMINATION.-I DAVID WINNER deaf defence dementia deranged disease district attorney Doctor evidence of insanity examination facts faculties Freeman gentlemen guilty hear heard Helen Holmes homicide horse idiot indicate insanity insane delusion insane persons intellect jail John G judge juror jury kill knew knife laughed lived looked mania mind monomania murder negro Nest family never night opinion Owasco Lake peremptory challenge principal cause prisoner prisoner's counsel punishment question reason recollect reply sane sanity seen Sidney Freeman smile soner spoke stabbed stealing Suppose swear symptoms talked tell testified testimony thing thought told took trial tried triors Utica verdict wanted witness wound wrong Wyckoff
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Page 467 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 431 - If the accused was conscious that the act was one which he ought not to do, and if that act was at the same time contrary to the law of the land, he is punishable...
Page 428 - Also if a man in his sound memory commits a capital offense, and before arraignment for it, he becomes mad, he ought not to be arraigned for it ; because he is not able to plead to it with that advice and caution that he ought.
Page 484 - The mode of putting the latter part of the question to the jury on these occasions has generally been, whether the accused at the time of doing the act knew the difference between right and wrong...
Page 161 - The opinion which has been avowed by the court, is, that light impressions which may fairly be supposed to yield to the testimony that may be offered ; which may leave the mind open to a fair consideration of that testimony, constitute no sufficient objection to a juror; but that those strong and deep impressions, which will close the mind against the testimony that may be offered in opposition to them ; which will combat that testimony and resist its force, do constitute a sufficient objection to...
Page 436 - To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes?
Page 431 - ... whether the accused at the time of doing the act knew the difference between right and wrong : which mode, though rarely, if ever, leading to any mistake with the jury, is not, as we conceive, so accurate when put generally and in the abstract, as when put with reference to the party's knowledge of right and wrong in respect to the very act with which he is charged.
Page 178 - That before a plea of insanity should be allowed, undoubted evidence ought to be adduced that the accused was of diseased mind, and that at the time he committed the act he was not conscious of right and wrong.
Page 430 - Lordships' inquiries are confined to those persons who labour under such partial delusions only, and are not in other respects insane, we are of opinion that, notwithstanding the party accused did the act complained of with a view, under the influence of insane delusion, of redressing or revenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some public benefit, he is nevertheless punishable according to the nature of the crime committed, if he knew at the time of committing such crime that...
Page 470 - ... of witnesses who have long been conversant with insanity in its various forms, and who have had the care and superintendence of insane persons, are received as competent evidence, even though they have not had opportunity to examine the particular patient, and observe the symptoms and indications of disease at the time of its supposed existence.