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The Guthrie Daily Leader
Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma
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In the Kansas City, Mo., trial of Dr. Jefferson D. Goddard for the murder of Fred J. Jackson, Judge Longan ruled out testimony on criminal intimacy between Goddard and Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, and their business relations with the deceased, limiting the case to self-defense and causing the prosecution to rest abruptly.
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Strongest Testimony Against the Defendant Ruled Out by the Court.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 28.-In the trial of Dr. Jefferson D. Goddard for murder of Laundryman Fred J. Jackson, Judge Longan yesterday afternoon made a ruling which upset the plans of the prosecution and caused the state to rest very abruptly and unexpectedly. The ruling was to the effect that no testimony tending to prove that a relation of criminal intimacy between the defendant and Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson had existed for some time prior to the killing. and no testimony in regard to the business relations between the defendant. Mrs. Jackson and the deceased would be admitted. Judge Longan held that Inasmuch as Goddard's sole plea was self-defense, the case must be tried on that issue alone. The ruling caused a great deal of comment among lawyers.
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Kansas City, Mo.
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Oct. 28
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prosecution's plans upset; state rested abruptly and unexpectedly; ruling limited case to self-defense plea.
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Judge Longan ruled that no testimony on criminal intimacy between defendant and Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson prior to the killing, nor on business relations between defendant, Mrs. Jackson, and deceased, would be admitted, as the case must be tried on self-defense alone.