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ONLINE

1st ed.

Ashland : The Kent State University Press, 2020

1 online resource (286 pages)

ISBN 9781631014307 (electronic bk.)

True Crime History

Print version: Rounds, Leslie Lambert I Have Struck Mrs. Cochran with a Stake Ashland : The Kent State University Press,c2020

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Murder -- 1. The Killing -- 2. The Cochran Family -- 3. Sally and Chauncey Cochran -- 4. Nighttime Attack -- 5. The Prescott Family -- 6. Indictment and Incarceration -- Part II: Abraham Prescott’s Trials -- 7. The Prosecution Presents Its Case -- 8. The Defense’s Opening Argument -- 9. The Defense Discusses Sleepwalking -- 10. The Avery Connection -- 11. Mental Illness in the Prescott Family -- 12. The Physicians Begin Their Testimony -- 13. More Physicians for the Defense -- 14. The Prosecution Rebuts -- 15. The Defense Begins Its Closing Argument -- 16. Closing Arguments Conclude -- 17. Verdict and Retrial -- 18. Reprieve, Riots, and Execution -- Part III: Somnambulism, Insanity, and Prescott’s Legacy -- 19. New Hampshire’s Need for an Asylum -- 20. The Sleepwalking Defense Evolves -- 21. The Insanity Plea -- 22. The Question of Responsibility -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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