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I have struck Mrs. Cochran with a stake : sleepwalking, insanity, and the trial of Abraham Prescott / Leslie Lambert Rounds.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rounds, Leslie L., author.
- Series:
- True crime series (Kent, Ohio)
- True crime history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prescott, Abraham, 1815?-1836--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Prescott, Abraham.
- Prescott, Abraham, 1815?-1836.
- Trials (Murder)--New Hampshire.
- Trials (Murder).
- Sleepwalking.
- Insanity (Law).
- Cochran, Sally, -1833.
- Cochran, Sally.
- New Hampshire.
- Genre:
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- The Killing
- The Cochran family
- Sally and Chauncey Cochran
- Nighttime attack
- The Prescott family
- Indictment and incarceration
- The prosecution presents its case
- The defense's opening argument
- The defense discusses sleepwalking
- The Avery connection
- Mental illness in the Prescott family
- The physicians begin their testimony
- More physicians for the defense
- The Prosecution rebuts
- The defense begins its closing argument
- Closing arguments conclude
- Verdict and retrial
- Reprieve, riots, and execution
- New Hampshire's need for an asylum
- The sleepwalking defense evolves
- The insanity plea
- The Question of responsibility.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 17, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9781631014307
- 1631014307
- Publisher Number:
- 40030372210
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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