The Insanity Dodge
In regard to a suggestlon In a recent Couiuek, ffcvoring tbe confinement of persons acfiuitted of crime by reason of insanity in an uylom, a friend calis our attentiön to Secs. 1808, 190, W46, 1951 and 9510 of Ilowell's Compilation treatinjí upon that very point. Sec. 1908 próvidos as follows: Whena person shall have escaped indictment, or shall have been acquitted of a criminal charge, upon trial, on the groiind of Insanity. the court bc-ing certlfled by the Jury orotherwlse'of thefact, Khull carefully inquirc aad ascertuin wbetber his insmiiiy In any degree oontinoo, and il il does, (hall order him ia safe custoily, and to bt' seut to the asj lam. 060. 1909 pjOVtdeí tkBt any person undcr iiidictmant, or mdcr sentence, or in confinement tol any crime on any charge wlmtsoever, who t-hall appear to bo insane, may be taken to any asylum and kept tlicre until recovered and then be proceeded against or compelled to surve out his sentence, is the case may be. Secs. 1940 and 1951 refer to the manner of treatment of those becomlng insane after having been incareeratcd. Any one lntersted would do well to look uptlielaw in tbU recpect It has pro Vttioni tbat ought to be more generally known. Garland, the man of the Pan-electrk telepbone Scandal, still liolds on to his stock .nul to his Becretarystaip. Tbio la a great deal wm.se than the Credit Mobilier scandal ever a-. beCMSe this is a blgher ofBcla] and the amount is irreater. The ptople will not fa il to renieniber the men and the party which brlngl WOfih ¦ dlrnce upon tlii countrr.
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