Author : Walter Channing
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331149104
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (491 download)
Book Synopsis Medical Expert Testimony in the Kelley Murder Trial (Classic Reprint) by : Walter Channing
Download or read book Medical Expert Testimony in the Kelley Murder Trial (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Channing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Medical Expert Testimony in the Kelley Murder Trial Kelley's plea of guilty made a remarkable change in the method of legal procedure, as what up to that time had been a jury trial became a hearing before a judge! A jury was no longer necessary under the law Of New Hampshire, guilt being admitted. The responsibility of determining the degree Of guilt is placed on the judge, and this depends on whether deliberation and pre meditation can or cannot be proved. It was a striking and never - to-be-forgotten moment when the jury, the supposed bulwark of justice and personal freedom, was dismissed, and on the judge alone was left the weight of deciding between life and death. It was, however, a weight more appar ent than real, for the question resolved itself into one of two degrees of guilt, and the first was already, inferentially at least, excluded by the agreement Of counsel that the prisoner should plead guilty because of his peculiar mental condition. A portion of this, the fourth day of the trial, was spent in the introduction Of evidence relative to Kelley's infancy and youth, corroborating the statements made in the opening Of the defense and adding to their force by fuller details. It appeared that he had been a normal child up to four years Of age, when the accident occurred resulting in an injury to the brain. As already stated, the seat Of this injury is distinctly visible as a depression in the left frontal bone. After the accident there were epileptic convulsions up to 13 or 14 years Of age. There was accompany ing moral perversion and strange conduct noticeable enough to lead to his being called foolish Joe, Kelley's fool, and so on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
