Scott v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 5 — cited Wharton fy Stille's Med. Jur.,pages 35 to 45. cited Wharton's Amer. Crim. Law, secs. 25 to 28 inclusive; 16 B. Mon., 594; 1 Russell on Cñmes, 13; Roscoe's Crim. Evidence, 944, 945, 946; Wharton Sf Stille's, Med. Jur., secs. 177, 178, 183.
1Opinion of the Court
CHIBE JUSTICE DUVALL
delivered the opinion or the court:
This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction rendered by the Mercer circuit court, at its April term, 1863, against Edward 1). Scott, who was indicted for the murder of his stepson, James Tilford.
The defense.set up on behalf of the prisoner was that he was insane at the time of the commission of the homicide.
*228The grounds mainly relied on for reversal are, first, that the court erred in instructing the jury; and, secondly, in admitting important evidence.
1. The evidence relating to the question of insanity, as set out in the bill of…
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