Back when I rode the legal circuit in Illinois, I defended a woman from Metmora named Melissa Goings, 77 years-old.
They said she murdered her husband, he was 83. He was choking her and she grabbed a-hold of a stick of firewood and fractured his skull and he died.
In his will he wrote: 'I suspect she has killed me. If I get over it, I will have revenge.'
No one was keen to see her convicted, he was that kind of husband. I asked the prosecuting attorney if I might have a short conference with my client.
And she and I went into a room in the courthouse, but I alone emerged. The window in the room was found to be wide open.
It was believed the old lady may have climbed out of it.
I told the bailiff right before I left her in the room she asked me where she could get a good drink of water, and I told her Tennessee.
Mrs. Goings was seen no more in Metamora. Enough justice had been done; they even forgave the bondsman her bail.
