from Shakespeare’s Beehive: An Annotated Elizabethan Dictionary Comes to Light

This gentleman is Jeffrey Wade Chapman who will soon go to trial in Barton County, Kansas for first degree murder. Chapman’s attorney has filed a motion requesting that before the trial Chapman be permitted to have a tattoo artist cover up his client’s tattoo — the word “MURDER” in mirror image — because it “is irrelevant to the State’s case and would be extremely prejudicial to Mr. Chapman if introduced at trial or observed by the jury.” The State doesn’t oppose Chapman’s covering the tattoo but will not transport him to a licensed tattoo shop, and it’s illegal for a tattoo artist to practice anywhere else.