The Northwestern Reporter (Volume 34) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887. Excerpt: ... nd experience on the subject." Held, the uestion was properly excluded, as it called or a reiteration of the opinion of the wit-less previously expressed, and was not sked with a view to the introduction in vidence of the article referred to.--State '. Winter, (Iowa, ) 475. 8. Except for the purpose of testing the ccuracy of a medical expert's knowledge, t is inadmissible to ask whether delusion r transitory mania is a condition recog-tized by medical authorities;" the best vidence of such recognition being the vorks themselves, which are competent to rove what they teach.--Id. 9. A jury being bound to accept the law.s given by the court, it is proper on the rial of one indicted for murder where the lefense is insanity, to exclude from the ury such portions of a work on mental liseases as relate wholly to the question of be responsibility of an insane person for lis acts committed while in that condition.-Id. 10. The defense having proved that the )risoner's brother had been insane, and he existence of certain peculiarities in the irisoncr's conduct and manner after hav-ng received an injury on the head in a conflict with the deceased previous to the: onflict resulting in the killing, one of vhich was a habit of talking to himself, isked the witness whether that was a pe-culiarity of the brother's conduct while he was insane. Held properly excluded, the iffort being to prove by an ordinary wit-less the insanity of the prisoner by the existence of a similar peculiarity in the conduct of an insane person, without ihowing that that peculiarity was charac-eristic of the insane.--Id. 11 An ordinary witness, who testifies to laving been well acquainted with the pris-ner before the time at which he received certain injuries on his head, and to having lad frequent ...