Report on Homicide, 1837?

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Report on Homicide, 1837?

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This notebook, inscribed on the front cover: James C. Alvord; and on the inside front cover: J.C. Alvord, contains a thirty-two page draft of a report, written late in the 1830's, evidently prepared for a state commission investigating penal reform with respect to murder. The draft, designed to accompany proposed legislation in the Massachusetts General Court, seeks to establish two degrees of murder, to distinguish between premeditated murder and murder occasioned by "fury of the mind." There is a seven page manuscript folded loose in the beginning of the notebook which discusses the three classes of crime: treason, felonies, and misdemeanors. It is neither dated nor signed nor attributed. It is endorsed "Enunciation and definition of crimes."

1 v. (168 p., mostly blank) ; octavo.

Gadsden Public Library

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Alvord, James C., -1839

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James Church Alvord (1808-1839), was born in Greenwich, Mass. on 14 April 1808. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1827, studied law, passed the bar in 1830, and commenced the practice of law in Greenfield, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1837, a member of the Massachusetts senate in 1838, and was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress. He served from 4 March 1839, until his death in Greenfield on 27 September 1839, before the Congress assembled...