Quintilian's proposed defense, however, is that the stepmother did it, upset because she would lose out on the father's fortune to his blind son - so she framed the blind man using his own father's blood: A trail of bloody handprints led from the parents' room back to the blind son's room, and his blood-covered sword was found as well. Purportedly, the blind man took his sword from his room, walked across the house in the dead of night, entered his father and stepmother's bedroom, and stabbed his father once, killing him instantly and not waking up his stepmother, who found her husband dead in bed when she awoke. The case is titled "Paries Palmatus" or "The Wall of Handprints" and involves a blind son accused of stabbing his father in his sleep in order to obtain his inheritance. A bloody handprint looms large in an instructional legal case written up by the Roman jurist Quintilian or one of his students in the early 2nd century AD.
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