Word: sandering
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...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...
This week that aspect got some buttressing. Nurse Elizabeth Rose, who had fetched Dr. Sander the syringe, testified that she had also been with Dr. Snay. A state's witness, she admitted on cross-examination that she had made the statement: "I am certain that Mrs. Borroto was dead before Dr. Sander entered her room. She had death pallor. She was not breathing ... I would say that Mrs. Borroto was dead when Dr. Snay saw her. Dr. Sander did not kill her because she was dead when this injection was made...
...Thou Shalt Not Kill." But that kind of argument was not material to the real case of Dr. Sander. Had he done a good deed or committed a great sin? The state's answer was that Dr. Sander had committed a sin against society, tearing apart some of its moral and legal fabric; that fabric had to be repaired, no matter what the defendant's own interpretation of what was right and what was wrong...