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EDWARD D. WORRELL.

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easy, If I understand the duties
of first sergeant, he could not be
an imbeeile, as t have defined it,
without its having been found
out,

Hr. Wright. Suppose it was
aneertain whether the man who
appropriated the property had
anything to do with the deed,
that he fled and acted as no sane
man would set, would render
himself conspicuous everywhere,
proclaimed his name, wore the
apparel which would identify
him, when he had the means of
changing, would not flee whan
pursued, volunteers to tell the
property to be that of the man
Killed, and in all respects acts
differently from the sane man
who has murdered and who seeks
to avoid punishment, would you
seo in that no cause to suspect
insanity?

Dr, Bassett, In your ques-
tion you speak of acting as no
sane man would act. In such
ease I should think there was in-
sanity. I said in the beginning
of my testimony that what in
some men was called sanity was
in others insanity. That a man’s
previous eonduet must be known
and any sudden or perfect de-
parture from that without ade
quate cause, motive, object, or
intention, would indicata insan-
ity. In continuation of the an-
swer I made, if he was insane,
ten days before; I mean in eon-
nection ‘with my other answer,
T don’t say that the hypothesis
presented does not furnish evi-
dence of insanity. I want you
to take my whole answer to-
gether. I could not; there was
no insane action in the case.

Dr. G, Y. Bannister. Am a
physician in St. Lonis; am phy-
aician to the city hoapital; it is

not a Innatic asylum, though we
have a few lunatics there. All
diseases are treated there, Have
had an opportunity to see lma-
tiea to a limited extent. Have
been in the hospital at Philadel-
phia for one year, where wo had
about 100 male patients at one
time and about 80 women. Have
not seen wild delirium or what
you would call erazy, resulting
from epilepsy, but have seen im-
becility or idicey complete from
it, Some medical books describe
epilepsy as resulting in insanity,
but I think they do not state
the kind. Long continuance of
epileptic fits through many years
impairs the mind, In the cases
I have seen, there is a gradual
Joss of memory, and the reason
‘becomes impaired The mind
assumes imbecility. Congenital
malformation shows it, The last
degree of want of mind produced
is idiocy. An idiot is shown by
want of expression, dullness in
the eye, and retreating forehead,
No man ean be daily with another
who is an idiot and not know it.
If he was an imbecile he would
detect it. A man afflicted with
imbeeility or diooy in my opinion
could not hold any offies of daily
responsibility without its being
found out. ‘Have seen imbeeility
and idiocy produced by epilepsy.
‘As to frequency and time I have
not seen @ ease where epilepsy
produced such result. Have seen
imbecility, but never idiocy ex-
cept in case of congenital mat-
formation. In the case I refer
to, the attacks were every other
day. In oeeasional attacks have
known persons who have had ep-
Hleptic fits from early childhood
to the age of 25 years, once a
month. They were in possession
of sound mind,

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