Talk:William P. Fessenden

Fessenden argued a significant self-defense case
In 1837, Fessenden argued for the defendant in The State v. Field, 14 Maine 244, a case involving admissibilty of evidence of the character of the deceased in a trial turning on killing in self-defense. Details of the case can be found in _Select American cases on the law of self-defence_ (Horrigan & Thompson, Soule Thomas & Wentworth, 1874, file cu31924020148635 0n archive.org.

Whether that’s worth including in this article I leave to those who are more directly concerned with this subject.

Poihths (talk) 02:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

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