Word: mayhemic
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...Last week Mrs. Cooper Hewitt continued to avoid extradition from New Jersey to stand trial in California for causing mayhem to her daughter. † Eugenic Sterilization-Committee of the American Neurological Association-Macmillan...
Acquitted, Drs. Tilton Edwin Tillman and Samuel George Boyd, who two years ago sterilized Ann Cooper Hewitt (TIME, Jan. 20); of mayhem and conspiracy to commit mayhem; in San Francisco...
...Article 93 makes punishable by court-martial "any person subject to military law" who commits manslaughter, mayhem, arson, larceny, embezzlement, sodomy, other capital crimes. By Article 95, any officer "convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman shall be dismissed from the service." By Article 96, a court-martial is called for "all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and military discipline...
Under California's penal code, any person who "unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures or renders it useless" is guilty of mayhem, punishable by one to 14 years' imprisonment. Last week in San Francisco, Drs. Tilton Edwin Tillman and Samuel George Boyd were arrested for mayhem, released on bail. On the ground that she was mentally incompetent, Dr. Tillman advised and Dr. Boyd had performed an operation sterilizing Ann Cooper Hewitt, 21, great-granddaughter of the late great Philanthropist Peter Cooper, granddaughter of the late great Statesman Abram...
...physician within one year after attaining majority. Ann Hewitt's was the first such suit he knew of. At week's end an Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco offered, if Daughter Hewitt would back him up, to charge Mother Hewitt and the two physicians with mayhem, a felony punishable by one to 14 years imprisonment...