Vintage 1928 TRUE CRIME - U.S. Court legal brief law book.. BUTCHER BOY murder for Sale

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Vintage 1928 TRUE CRIME - U.S. Court legal brief law book.. BUTCHER BOY murder:
$66.15

..... … ……. Antique vintage, all original ………. SUPER scarce …….. super interesting ……….. famous REAL TRUE CRIME document / paper / brief / book ……….. from the FAMOUS MURDER TRIAL in California, USA ……….. in 1928 ………. ‘The Butcher Boy’ murder ……… in which the tawdry details of excessive booze, sex, and the wild partying of married socialite Myrtle Mellus and her lover were exposed during her murder trial …… she, the victim ….. a trial which captivated the city then, and even still …...

....…… this document is the actual, REAL legal ‘court’ document … the APPELLANT’S REPLY BRIEF … which explores the same tawdry details mentioned above ……. AND includes the most startling and titillating evidence …….. the ‘LOVE BITES’ … all over her nude body ……..

....…The Appellant’s Reply Brief is the final brief of the APPEAL process ………. this one for Supreme Court Case #3195 in the State of California …. this was published and compiled and written by Kelley’s lawyers: Hahn, Heyfron, and Shontz …. It is an original OFFICE file copy, one of just a handful ………….. undated …….. but from 1928, the trial date … ……… the accused Leo P. Kelley had been sentenced to hang – this is his APPEAL ………

....….. NOTE – ……. this / his appeal was ultimately successful …………...

....………….. stapled brief measures 10 x 7 inches ……….. complete, clean, tight, flat ………….. shows light / moderate cover wear …….. heavy OUTER spine wear, rusty staples ………… BUT it is all intact, nothing loose ……… clean, complete ……………..

....…………… this case was NOTEWORTHY because of it’s titillating details ………… an affair with a married socialite …… a long, torrid affair with lots of alcohol involved ………… and most intriguing of all – THE BITE MARKS on her body ……

....….. SO SENSITIVE were these details ……. a 2006 Los Angeles Times article on the murder DIDN’T MENTION the bites ………. but these so-called – ‘LOVE BITES’ – all over her body – were perhaps the darkest element of this trial … the Prosecutor called the defendant ‘a Sadist’ ……… during the trial, a woman juror FAINTED .. her sensibilities so disturbed …..

....………. This brief is 57 pages ……… covers the key evidence from the trial ………… and offers counter reasoning …… like Leo maybe punched her in the face, but he didn’t kill her … she had fainting spells from drinking, she hit her head …… the ‘bite marks’ were just part of their sex play …… pretty wild stuff for 1920s ……….

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BACKGROUND

....(from the Los Angeles Times, 2006) ……………...The murder victim, Myrtle Mellus, 42, had been carrying on a five-year love affair with Leo “Pat” Kelley, 29, a local butcher more than a decade her junior. Her well-to-do husband, Frank, a grand-nephew of the former mayor, apparently knew nothing about the relationship.

....The so-called “Butcher Boy” murder case made headlines. Kelley was convicted of the killing and sentenced to hang. His appeal to the state Supreme Court resulted in the verdict’s reduction to manslaughter from first-degree murder. The case set a precedent for altering a conviction without a new trial.

....Frank and Myrtle Mellus had been married 22 years. He was 47, a tent and awning manufacturer and a sportsman who loved fishing and duck hunting. She was a bored socialite. Parties, shopping sprees and drinking binges became her pastimes. ……

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