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19 Medico-Legal J. 1 (1901-1902)

handle is hein.journals/medlejo19 and id is 1 raw text is: THE MEDICAL EXPERT EVIDENCE IN THE CASE OF THE DAVIS BELLEVUE HOSPITAL HOMICIDE CASE. BY R. L. PRITCHARD, ESQ., M. D., OF THE NEW YORK BAR. This case, recently tried in this city, has brought the question of medical expert evidence once more promi- nently before the public. The accused was a nurse in charge of the Insane Pavilion, and he was charged with having caused the death of a patient through violence. Three witnesses testified for the prosecution that they saw the accused nurse strike the patient Hilliard, and pull on a sheet which he had placed around Hilliard's throat. The accused nurse, Davis, as a witness in his own behalf, admitted that he had used restraining force upon Hilliard, and that he had slapped him. The defense was that Hil- liard did not die from the effects of the violence. In no recent case has the issue of the defendant's guilt been so entirely dependent on medical expert evidence as in this case. The defence examined eight medical wit- nesses, and amongst them were men of the highest stand- ing in the medical profession. The prosecution, not to be left too far in the number of medical expert witnesses, examined five experts, and amongst them were also men in the front rank of the medical profession. The experts on one side differed from those on the other- this is not unusual; but to emphasize their differences, the District attorney described the testimony of the expert witnesses as a race of liars. The question which concerns the student of legal medi- Read before the Medico-Legal Society, March 20, 1901..

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