The trials of Laura Fair : sex, murder, and insanity in the Victorian West /
On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A.P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Women and the law.
UNC Press law publications. World trials library. |
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline UNC Press Law Publications HeinOnline Women and the Law |
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