The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 30, 1921, Image 8
WHO IS REALLY INSANE
Question for Which Satisfactory Answer
is Difficult.
Thirty years ago a clever author
wrote a book in which he tiied to
show that the geniuses of the world
had all been insane. Today there are
doctors who are going further, and
are pounding the startling theory
that few, if any people are entirely
sane! Mental specialists are also
falling foul of the legal test as to
what constitutes insanity as regards
the responsibility of each of us for
any breach of the law we may commit.
The law holds that, in order to entitle
a person charged with a crime
to be acquitted on the ground of insanity,
it is not enough to show that
he was suffering from mental instability
or mental disease; or, in other
words was insane at the time he com
mitted the act; but that the defense .
must go further and satisfy the jury j
that the mind of the accused was so
diseased that he did not know what !
he was doing, or, if he did know (
what ho was Hmncr. that he did not
know it was wrong to do it.
The law inquires into the degree of ,
the insanity and its effect upon the (
specific action of the accused. I
A person who is without intellec- ?
tual facilities?a congenital idiot, or 5
who is permanently or tatally insane
?is not criminally responsible at all, ?
for he cannot have had a criminal ?
intent. c
A person who is only partially or I
only temporarily insane is not respon- c
sible for an act done during and in f
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consequence of a phase of mental incapacity.
For example, a man suffering
from delirium tremens, which sc
affects his mind that he is not conscious
of the nature of an act done bj
him in one of his paroxysms is entititled
to a verdict of guilty but insane;
which means that he will be detainee
until he is cured.
It is these partial or occasional
darkenings of the mental faculties
that are the most usual and that give
wise to the difficulty of determining
whether a person, is or is not responsible
in law for his act. For Something
done during a lucid interval, an
occasional lunatic is considered to be
as much responsible as an entirely
sane person.
A partially insane person, such as
those who suffer with delusions, but
who, apart from the delusions, are of
capable understanding, can only be
considered irresponsible for what he
Joes in consequence of his delusion.
1: A, for example, has the insane delusion
that B. is seeking to kill him,
and that in self-defense he must kill
t>. and does so, he will not be guilty
>1* murder. But the fact that A fancies
he is the Cham of Tartary will not
secure his acquittal if he poisons his
vife. Doctors contend however, that
>ne delusion is sufficient to corrupt
:he whole mind, and it is absurd to
say that a man with a delusion reasons
and acts in a logical way.
Nearly akin to the defense of in!9nitv
ic tVin rlo-f^nco nf rlninlronecs
ls to which it may be said that a
irunken man must be presumed to
lave intended the natural consequene
of his act, unless the jury is satisied
that his mind had been so affect11!1111
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ed by drink that he was incapable of
. knowing1 what he was doing was like(
ly to inflict serious injury. A case
. in point in which it had to be decid.
ed the liability of a man who, while
. drunk, had murdered a girl. It was
. held that the temporary drunkenness, j
I weakened the will and mental powers
of the prisoner, was no excuse,
and that the criminal must be hang- i
ed.
It may be admitted that the legal i
. tests are not perfectly satisfactory,'
but they have been arrived at after j
long experience, and so far the doc-;
tors have not succeeded in framing;
an alternate that would be at all j
piacticable. It must not be forgotten,
, too that in criminal cases the accus'ed
person has the protection of a jury,
and that juries give the prisoner the
benefit if there is any real doubt as
to whether he was mentally derang-,
c-d at the time he committed the act.
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Pirate Ship Theory of Mystery j
i Has a pirate crew been operating
(off the American coast in these ultra
modem times?
After investigating the most baf-1
fling marine mystery since the disap
j pearance of the Cdllier Cyclops in the
j early days of the war, government officials
can offer 110 other explanation.
No less than four governm?nt agencies,
it developed recently, have endeavored
to account for the disappearance
of vhe steam tanker Hcweitt
last January, and for the discovery
two days later of the schooner Car- 1
'roll A. Deering with all sails set, but I
the crew missing, cn the shoals near 1
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