191 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 159If an individual does not know the nature and quality of the act, or, if knowing it, is unconscious that it was wrong, then the law adjudges him to be an…
189 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLIt is not sufficient merely to be present and offer assistance, if indeed, to watch to prevent surprise, and by the knowledge of that fact, encourage and inspire the active agent with…
190 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:158 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The law distinguishes between the guilt of an act that results from criminal design and one committed under the pressure of mental disorder and its insane impulses. The former is…
185 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLGentlemen, you would experience no difficulty in finding a suitable object for the exercise of your sympathy. I have done; may the Almighty so direct your minds that in the verdict you…
186 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:154 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The proof of killing alone is not sufficient to establish the guilt of murder in the first degree. Some of the facts and circumstances from which the law deduces the…
187 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLRather than evidence of deliberate malice, passion may have an extenuating quality, but the proof must disclose the existence of an adequate exciting cause. The clemency of the law is not extended…
188 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:156 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In the absence of affirmative evidence, the elements of murder in the first degree are deduced as an implication of law, with only the killing being proved, and are to…
181 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLThe opinion of Lord Denman, as cited in 1 Archbold's Criminal Practice, sections 12, 10, and 11, is recognized as law by our Supreme Court in the case of State v. Hutting,…
182 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:150 &X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Was it under an irresistible impulse that compelled him to search the pockets of the deceased, appropriate their contents, conceal the body, and take and carry away his horse, saddle,…
183 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 151It is a mistake to suppose that the culprit is the only one interested in the outcome; and upon mere conjectures or mistaken sympathy, to turn him loose upon society, encouraged…
184 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:152 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,If the defendant committed the act, let him say so and face the consequences. It was a voluntary act on his part, and he committed it with full knowledge that…
176 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:144 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSThe case involved the murder of one Chisuall. It appeared in evidence that the prisoner labored under the notion that the inhabitants of the town of Hadleigh, of whom Chisuall…
177 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORBRELL. 145He does or says nothing without reason. Prolonged disease and extreme old age contribute largely to this species of insanity. Ray says, "The mind passes gradually from its sound and natural…
178 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:146 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In cases of monomania, it is often observed that the individual acts without a clear motive, or if a motive is assigned, it is connected with their delusion.Numerous instances are…
179 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 147I will comment upon this at considerable length and provide a variety of instances from which it appears that in nineteen out of twenty cases, the victim of the monomaniac is…
180 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:148 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The defense was based on the ground of absent witnesses by whom the defendant expected to prove that he was insane.I shall not contend that all of these tests are…
172 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:140 2. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSDr. Worrell reported that his son had another attack in the same year at Winchester, Kentucky. The doctor was stationed there temporarily as a teacher. His son slept with some…
173 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 141How admirably does the author's description of feigned epilepsy apply to the case of the prisoner at the bar. Has a single instance of personal injury been sustained in any of…
174 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:142 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.A medical expert who has treated epilepsy very frequently states that a long attack with short intervals will result in loss of memory and the power to reason, and the…
175 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 143Mania is a form of insanity characterized by a general derangement of the mental faculties, accompanied by varying degrees of excitement, sometimes escalating to violent fury. It arises from a morbid…
167 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 185A witness stated that he had frequently drunk with the prisoner in his room and had seen him in the saddle. What can be inferred from this, except the fact that…
168 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:136 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.James Dunn, in his deposition, has volunteered an opinion as to the insanity of the defendant. He met him in Baltimore in February last, in the office of Mr. Raisin,…
169 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 137Gentlemen, I am through with the depositions, though it will be necessary to call your attention to some parts of them upon other branches of the subject.I wish now, gentlemen of…
170 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:138 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSThe next proposition submitted by the counsel was that the mind of the prisoner had been seriously impaired by epilepsy.Epilepsy is a disease that manifests in various degrees. In its…
171 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 139He found him in the condition stated by the aunt; he was raving and tearing and kicking up his heels, and looked wild and made strange gestures. They succeeded in getting…
163 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 181Evidence had been found that the deceased's dental work, made by a dentist in Boston, was in the furnace; both of which helped to identify the body and connect the prisoner…
164 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:132 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Sergeant Clark states that the duty of a sentinel is regulated by his orders, and that he will always permit one of his own regiment to pass, if satisfied of…
165 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 183The defendant approached the Secretary of War for his discharge. The witness told him that he thought it would be a hopeless undertaking, whereupon the defendant said, "that there was no…
166 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:184 AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In a society where profanity is not considered a crime, I should suppose such scenes were quite common. Any person discovering a quarrel at his door would be likely to resort…
159 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLOn the contrary, others considered him quite shrewd in a trade. Hutchinson saw nothing unusual in his conduct; he appeared perfectly rational and behaved as travelers usually do.Major Wright thinks that, upon…