I Have Struck Mrs. Cochran with a Stake Sleepwalking, Insanity, and the Trial of Abraham Prescott.

How the forgotten case of murder while sleepwalking changed history After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his sleeping employers to the brink of death. He later explained that he'd attacked Sally and Chauncey Co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rounds, Leslie Lambert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ashland : The Kent State University Press, 2020.
Colección:True Crime History.
Temas:
Murder
True Crime
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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