Murder & Mayhem in Jefferson County by Cheri L. Farnsworth

Author:Cheri L. Farnsworth [Farnsworth, Cheri L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781614234333
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

Courtesy of the author.

The judge, in his sentencing speech, said, in part:

The court believes you have had a fair and impartial trial…after, as I believe, considering it fairly, honestly, and conscientiously, the jury decided that you were guilty of the highest crime known to the law. They decided that you deliberately, and with premeditation intending so to do, took the life of Mrs. Ward. After hearing your history from your own lips, it is not a matter of much surprise that your career should have ended in that way. You seem to have had your hand raised against society and its laws almost since your boyhood. You seem to think you could maltreat the weak women at pleasure and will, seemingly becoming, as the years went on and on, more and more determined in your course to injure anyone who crossed your path. I only wonder that some such catastrophe had not happened long before.

While we are sorry for you and sympathize with you in your trouble, we are also sorry for your victim and sympathize with her. Though perchance her life was a little stained by sin, yet so far as it appears, it may have been the result of your actions only. In all events, she came to her death by your deliberate act. The law is that for such crime, punishment must follow. The last words that I would say to you is that in the few weeks that remain to you, you think of brighter spots in your career, and give those sentiments and impulses that are pure the ascendency, so that you may be better prepared for your fate. You may rest assured that you must pay the penalty.

Miles showed no emotion and didn’t even blink as the judge read his sentence. Perhaps it was shock or stunned silence, as the reality of his conviction set in. But he broke down on the way out of the courthouse. To his estranged wife, Mercy Corp, he left all of his money and asked that she deposit it in the Jefferson County Savings Bank in the name of his daughter. With only that loose end to tie up, he was ready to go and face his sentence. En route to Auburn, he said, “I won’t ask for a new trial, but I suppose my lawyer will. If a new trial means imprisonment for life, I do not care for it. I would rather have things go on just as they are planned. I would rather die at the time set than spend the balance of my life in prison. It’s been bad all the way through, and I do not fear death.”

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