Word: borroto
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...were members of a panel from which the court was trying to select twelve jurors (and an alternate) to try the case of 41-year-old Dr. Hermann Sander for the "mercy killing" last December of his cancer-ridden patient, Mrs. Abbie Borroto...
Prosecutor Phinney retold the story of the morning of Dec. 4 when Dr. Sander, bending over the wasted figure of Abbie Borroto, 59, told a nurse to bring him a sterile syringe. "He inserted the needle into the vein." Two or three minutes later -"Dr. Sander handed the needle back to the nurse and indicated that Mrs. Borroto was dead ..." A week later he dictated a notation to the record librarian: "Patient was given 10 cc. of air intravenously repeated four times. Expired within ten minutes after this was started...
...Corpus Delicti. State's witness, Sheriff Thomas O'Brien, took the stand. He testified that Dr. Sander, after being confronted with his notation, had told him that Abbie Borroto's anguished husband, Reginald, had pleaded with the doctor to "do something to eliminate his wife's pain, even, if necessary, to eliminate her life." That "Borroto was smoking and drinking coffee all night-he went home and started drinking-he had a bad heart." That Sander "in a weak moment decided...
Josephine Connor, librarian in Hillsborough County General Hospital where Mrs. Borroto died, testified that she had waited almost two weeks before finally reporting Dr. Sander's final notation in the case because "it kind of slipped my mind." She recalled that the county medical referee had asked Dr. Sander if he didn't realize he had broken the law. Said Miss Connor: Dr. Sander replied that he did but that he had broken the law before, "he had been through stop signs and nothing ever came of it." This was more serious, the medical referee told him, this...
...apparent from dignified, white-haired Lawyer Louis Wyman's opening statement and later questioning that the defense was going to depend heavily on the medical aspect of the case: that another doctor, Albert Snay, who had examined Abbie Borroto before Dr. Sander saw her that morning, could not feel her pulse; that she might already have been dead when Dr. Sander gave her the injections of air; that the prosecution could not produce a corpus delicti, i.e., proof of death by a criminal...