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FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF SAMUEL M. ANDREWS, FOR THE MURDER OF CORNELIUS HOLMES

FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF SAMUEL M. ANDREWS, FOR THE MURDER OF CORNELIUS HOLMES by [Andrews, Samuel M.]

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Title
FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF SAMUEL M. ANDREWS, FOR THE MURDER OF CORNELIUS HOLMES
Author
[Andrews, Samuel M.]
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
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Plymouth: Memorial and Rock Press, 1868. 52pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers, with wrapper title, as issued. Near Fine. The case resonates among today's hot-button political-social issues. "The oldest plea of homosexual panic in America seems to have been made in Massachusetts in 1868. Accused of killing a longtime friend, a young man named Samuel M. Andrews claimed that he had been driven into 'transitory insanity' when the friend pushed him down, tore open his pantaloons, and said, 'Now I'm going to have some, this time.' The word 'homosexual' wouldn't debut in English for almost another two decades, but a fear of homosexuality was already being presented as a justification for killing a gay man" [New Yorker, THE THEORY THAT JUSTIFIED ANTI-GAY CRIME, 26 June 2019]. "Holmes was beaten to death with stones by Andrews, whom he had named as his heir in his will. The defendant pleaded insanity and self-defense, for he had had to fight off Holmes' attempted act of sodomy" [McDade]. The case "generated a great deal of interest from the psychiatric and legal communities, including articles published in the American Journal of Insanity (Jarvis, 1869, 1870), the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (Choate, 1869), and a book-length document titled, Report on the Trial of Samuel M. Andrews, Indicted for the Murder of Cornelius Holmes before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (Davis, 1869), which contained the judges' rulings, the attorneys' speeches, and witness testimony" ["Madman in the Closet: 'Homosexual Panic' in Nineteenth Century New England ", by Leslie Margolin, Journal of Homosexuality, December 04, 2019. pp. 1471-1488.] This pamphlet recounts "the tragic event that wrought the quiet village of Kingston to the highest intensity of excitement and horror." The testimony and evidence against Andrews, reviewed here, "swept away all hope of innocence, all claim to sympathy." In this casebook trial on the effect of mental illness upon the criminal law, Andrews was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. McDade12.
Opuscula Selecta: Classica - Hellenistica - Christiana

Opuscula Selecta: Classica - Hellenistica - Christiana by Zuntz, G.

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Opuscula Selecta: Classica - Hellenistica - Christiana
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Zuntz, G.
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
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Totowa, N.J.: Manchester University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. VII, [1], 322pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. This selection of articles, published and unpublished, by the Emeritus Professor of Hellenistic Greek in the University of Manchester, comprises three main sections. The first, headed Classica, begins with articles on the earliest documents of Attic prose writing and ends with the discussion of an archaeological problem at Agrigento in Sicily; there are also articles on Pindar and Euripides. The second and third sections are evidence of how Professor Zuntz interpreted the field which he represented at his university. Minor age-wear on wrappers with spine slightly sunned. Wrappers in overall good+, binding and interior in very good condition.

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