 His trial was presided over by Justice Lemuel Shaw who the following year would sentence Professor John White Webster to death for the murder of Harvard Medical School benefactor, George Parkman, another trial that would capture Boston's imagination and blur the lines of distinction between opponents and advocates of capital punishment.Goode's trial was reported widely in the newspapers, including "The Tioga Eagle" of June 13, 1849, published in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, which carried a brief notice of his hanging