State v. Tull

The State has appealed from the granting of a motion for a new trial to the appellee, Tull, hied a month after his judgment and sentence of death for the murder of his wife was affirmed by this Court in Tull v. Stale, 230 Md. 596. At the original trial Tull’s real defense was that he was insane at the time of the killing. Both Dr. William G. Cushard, superintendent of Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital, and Dr. John M. Hamilton, its clinical director, testified that Tull was then sane, while Dr. Oscar G. Prado, State-wide director of correctional psychiatry of the Department of Mental Hygiene,…