Report of the Case of Geo. C. Hersey: Indicted for the Murder...
Yerrinton, J. M. W. Report of the Case of Geo. C. Hersey: Indicted for the Murder... Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1862. Reprint New York, N.Y.: Notable Trials Library, 1997. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. 267 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $25. * A Notable Trials Library reprint, with an introduction by noted legal scholar Alan Dershowitz, of a detailed, contemporaneous report of the 1862 trial of George C. Hersey. He was indicted and subsequently convicted for the murder of Betsy Frances Tirrell in Massachusetts. The case is historically significant for its early reliance on expert medical and chemical testimony regarding strychnine poisoning.
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