People v. Bechtel

This is an appeal sought to be had from an order or judgment of the circuit court finding that the appellant was not lunatic, or insane. Appellant was by the grand jury of Shelby county, at the November term, 1920, indicted for the crime known as “crime against children.”

On November 16, 1920, appellant, and his wife, Anna B. Bechtel, as his next friend, prior to the arraignment of Bechtel on the charge in the indictment' returned against him, filed a petition averring Bechtel had become insane since the indictment and praying for an insanity inquest under paragraph 285 of the Criminal Code.…