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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 93

with the letter and spirit of our laws, Heed not its counsel
ag you value all that men should hold dear.

I said in my opening that the apparent motive for the
homicide, furnished by the appropriation of the property of
the deceased, could not be disregarded in determining the
state of mind of the prisoner. Sane men act from motive,
and as sane men do unhappily find in property a motive to
crime, such motive is held to be presumptive evidence of
sanity. It is not always a true test! It is not decisive! In-
sanity has ita motives also, and insane men act on motives
such as move the sane to felony.

‘While this is so, if the cireumatances of each case be elosely
scrutinized there will be seen something in the conduct of the
insane man, which cannot be reconciled with sane action. If
he starts with an apparent motive, it does not control his
action for any length of time. If you keep your eye upon his
action you will see that something becomes stronger than the
apparent motive, and begets conduct inconsistent with, or at
war with that motive. You will be startled by something at
war with human experience, and which you cannot philosoph-
ically aceount for except upon the hypothesis of mental dis-
order. It is this law of man’s action which troubles this
prosecution. The evidence they bring of the conduct of the
prisoner from the day of the homicide up to his confinement
in jail in St. Louis, that remarkable flight, that remarkable
pursuit of one thousand miles, is crowded with evidence of
insanity.

The circuit attorney called it an ingenious flight which
paffed the pursuit of an adroit and experienced police. Flight!
There was no flight, and as to the other epithet, ‘‘baffled,’”’ if
the prisoner had studiously designed to render his arreat a
necessity, he could not have taken surer means to accomplish
the object. The sole perplexity of Couzins arose from his
own ingennity. Thinking he was after a man who would
naturally, by an instinct universal in felons, conceal his
whereabouts by feints, all his anticipations were wrong. He
marched and countermarched, but his own ingenious errors
were corrected by the nnexampled publicity and notoriety of

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