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' For the Boone County Pioneer?'Insanity as a Plea for Murder.Every good citizen, desiring the welfare of his country, and the impartial administration of justice,| must be sorely pained with the j manner in which some of our dis-; tinguished legal tribunals have re-j cently disposed of certain crimi-j nals arraigned before them for mur-j der. And as a fair type of several others, I will select the case of the State vs Daugherty, recently tried and acquitted at Tipton, 011 the charge of murdering Van Hornnlt;\votSilvlt;trsitrD*1si♦IShntlabout one year ago. Daughertyjiiwas acquitted on the plea of insanity. In the last few years the plea ot insanity has become very con-; venient, and quite successful, too,in j procuring the acquittal of criminals who would, perhaps, otherwise have been convicted. I do not now . say whether a man should or should , not be convicted, and visited with■ I the severest penalties of the law, lor killing another man who has slandered his sister, but 1 do solemnly protest against the miserable plea of insanity. If a brother defends the virtue of his sister by killing her slanderer, let him be ac-- ; quitted because the sense of the■ j community approves his act, and [ j leave out the senseless, groundlessplea of insanity. And lor the dignity and honor of the Medical Pro-%•fession, I hope 110 physicians of respectability will ever again pronounce any person insane upon so flimsy a piece of testimony as is presented in the hypothetical caseupon which they declared Daugh-1|erty insane when lie did the act. Who ever heard of a case of true insanity before, just like that of D Lieut. Daugherty? Would anyJ I 0g I physicians dare send a person to j | the Hospital for Insane, upon the s j same symptoms 011 which they de-j clarcd Daugherty to be insane ?s.11dS'ahsf!1Jt€(J(IttCt'I1I1 V
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Lebanon Boone County Pioneer
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Fri, Dec 09, 1870
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Connie D.
WA, USA 05 Aug 2017
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