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Doctors Disagree On Severns SanityICO VMM » 1 * I ROM l*AOK ONE)ad of murder and knows it now*Allium fit the defense tiled aprnulural dumtrrer to the Miite’s evidence. which was over* ruled, the! defence attorneys (ltd lot ■ i. hallengg* the allegation by the state th.d Mrs, Severn* tired the shots that killed Siler,A .signed £t affluent m which Mf8, Severns deathbed the shoot* trig was introduced Tuesday over the ohjedions of defense attorneyJack Spi vey #The conflicting medical testbtnony began Wednesday after*noon when lr, ft, J Sidvveil ofOklahoma City, WAS placed on the stand He told of examining Mrs. Severn* on s e Ilfs I occasions sin*# the slaying of Siler and found her to tie suffer*ing from diabetes* severe hyper* tension and in n mental state that tendered her unable to dll-UOKUiih rigid, from wrong.Ptrttcufion ClaimtdWtiett he examined her in theDr. Toppedge said he had attended Mrs Severn* almost dady since last September. He said he [thought her mental illness became severe in 1954 when Cleve-rlfcnd county deputies raided her farm, the Black Magic Angus 1 ranch, in search of liquor.Or. Coppcdjjo said Mrs. Sev* orns complained the officers had manhandled her and that their action was the result of a | canspir*cy of t he neighborhoodagainst her,f)r. Prosser said: This woman could not tell right from wrongin regard to the act she commit*ted because she ia insane and suffers delusions. Her act was the result of what she coneehed to lie a need to escape from per* swution.’He said her insanity was evl* i dlt; ficlt;*d by an excessive interestin myilicfohJ, the* reproductionprocess in animateDtfandtnf Indifferent
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Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Feb 26, 1959
Page 29
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Houston P.
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