State v. Lapage
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
From Merrimack Circuit Court. _ Indictment, charging the respondent with the murder of Josie A. Langmaid, who was killed October 4, 1875, about nine o’clock in the morning, while passing over the Academy road, in Pembroke, on her way to school. Her head was severed from her body, and removed a distance of a quarter .of a mile. Another part of her body, including one half or two thirds of the vagina, was cut out and carried away, and was never recovered.
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From Merrimack Circuit Court. _ Indictment, charging the respondent with the murder of Josie A. Langmaid, who was killed October 4, 1875, about nine o’clock in the morning, while passing over the Academy road, in Pembroke, on her way to school. Her head was severed from her body, and removed a distance of a quarter .of a mile. Another part of her body, including one half or two thirds of the vagina, was cut out and carried away, and was never recovered. No post-mortem examination of the body was made, with a view to ascertaining whether the victim had been violated. The government claimed…
1Opinion of the Court
FROM MERRIMACK CIRCUIT COURT. The testimony of Fowler, Mahair, the Towles, the Watsons, and Mercy, was, I think, properly admitted. It all tended to show that the prisoner, about the time of the murder, was frequenting that neighborhood with a view to the commission of the crime of rape upon the person of some one of the young females whom he knew to have occasion to pass over that road. The obscene and filthy language he is described as using, in connection with his inquiries about one of the young ladies, tends to show what thoughts were in his mind, and what he was meditating. The…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Commonwealth v. O'BrienMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- People of the State of N.Y. v. . CorbinNew York Court of Appeals · 1874
- State v. RentonSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1844
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- United States v. John T. GoodwinCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
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