text:  "I stand here this day " he said "the most wretched of human beings and confess myself criminal in a high degree; yet while I acknowledge with shame and repentance that my determination against my own life was formal and complete I protest with that regard which becomes my situation that the will to destroy her who was ever dearer to me than life was never mine till a momentary frenzy overpowered me and induced me to commit the deed I deplore