Trial
Cordelia Botkin was tried before Judge Carroll Cook, who ruled on the first case involving a crime committed in two different states, a decision which was never reviewed by the United States Supreme Court.
Cordelia Botkin denied her guilt, but she was convicted of murder in December 1898, and was convicted again at a retrial in 1904. She was sentenced to life imprisonment. She died in 1910 in San Quentin State Prison. John Dunning, his career destroyed by the revelations during the trial, had died two years previously in Philadelphia.
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