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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1959)
What Is The Law? This column is prepared as a public service by the Colleqe of Law, Willamette University, Salem, to explain basic legal principles, not to provide legal advice. The reader is cautioned not to apply these cases to his own problems without an attorney's advice, for differing facts may change the outcome. EVEN CONFESSED KILLER MAY BE INNOCENT ' Joseph was killed by a shot from a gun and death obvious ly was not a suicide. The death weapon had belonged to the late Karl Dunn and had been in the home of widow Dunn. Widow Dunn's son, William, tells lawyer Marrow that he committed the homicide and asks Marrow to defend him. The lawyer questions him at some length; and, although the confessed killer is vague, William constantly contends he did the killing because the murdered man had attacked his sister. . Lawyer Undecided - The lawyer realizes a per son is presumed innocent un til proved guilty, but here is a man who insists he commit ted the killing. If William act ually did the killing, the law yer is unsure whether he was sane of insane when it hap pened. He is unsure whether the act were manslaughter, murder in the second degree (done in the heat of passion), murder in the first degree (premeditated), or a justifi able killing such as self de fense. The lawyer realizes that al though taking the case may be an unpopular thing to do, everyone is entitled to being represented in court. From a sense of duty the lawyer takes the case. Hi fee will be mea ger because William Dunn is very poor. William is brought to trial and conviction appears very probable. (What the lawyer does not know is that Wil liam is very sure that his mother killed Joseph Johnson. He is -actually trying to pro tect her, hoping to be convict ed only of second degree mur der and, by being a model prisoner, to be paroled before long.) Killing Admitted The jury is closeted to ar rive at a verdict when the widow of the murdered man goes to the judge to tell him she committed the killing. She had had ample motives and had stolen the gun to protect herself from her husband who had had the habit of getting drunk, beating her, and brag ging about his affairs with other women. This case clearly demon strates that one who appears guilty and confesses to a kill" ing should never be assumed guilty until he is found to be so; and even then he may be innocent. Regardless of the situation, everyone is entitled to representation in court and expert presentation of his case. The lawyer cannot in good conscience refuse a case simply because at the mo ment it is not the popular thing to do. Theodore Roosevelt at 42 was the youngest inaugurated as president. 1 2f& Br mm in ' ft. 1 - - i v t , - ' f .. ' ... ' "niiflB j TRUNK MURDER The body of Mrs. Mary Jean Prestridge, 26, of Fresno, Calif, was discovered in the trunk of her own car, parked and abandoned on a Los Angeles '. street Mrs. Prestridge was the mother of two children. She was last seen by her . husband July 3; he thought she had gone to visit relatives. Falling Tree Hits, Kills Portland Man Portland- OJPD -Charles Ed ward Seymour, 40, of Port land, was killed when struck by a falling tree Friday as he was clearing a timber . and brush-covered lot at S. W. 63rd Ave. and Vermont St. here. Deputy Sheriff William Forsyth said a loading scoop on a tractor Seymour was operating apparently struck the three, toppling it on the tractor. Seymour was struck across the head, knocked off 4he tractor and killed instantly, the deputy said. TEEN-AGE MARRIAGES Memphis, Term. (DTD - Coun ty school officials are crack ing down on teen aged moth erhood and marriage. 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