CRM/LAW C144 Chapter Notes - Chapter STEPHENSON V STATE: Ku Klux Klan Titles And Vocabulary, Madge Oberholtzer
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Underlying facts, the actual crime that took place. In an effort to commit suicide, she seized a chance to secretly buy and take six tablets of bichloride of mercury. Soon thereafter she was taken to her parents: they summoned a doctor, who treated her, and in the ensuing ten days, all her wounds healed normally except one, which became infected, she grew worse and died. Indictment charged defendant with murder: march 16, kidnapped the deceased, detained her on a railroad train en route to. Defendant neither administered antidote nor called medical help although able to do so. Forced her into a car and drove her back to indianapolis where he kept her in his garage until march 18: died on april 14 from the effects of her wounds and poison. In the case of state v. preslar (1856: defendant in the nighttime fought with his wife, and she left to go in the house of her father.