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Excerpt from The American Practitioner, 1874, Vol. 10: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery For the time she was evidently beside herself. Mr. Clay made this point in his argument before the jury with great effect. If Polly Bullitt, said he, were now before you on a trial for the murder of that child, which she had the will to commit, could you find her guilty? Could you say that she was a rational, accountable being? And if not capable of discerning between right and wrong, if not responsible in such a case as this, was she capable of making a will? The jury was not able to agree; several were for breaking the will, and the case was compromised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.