People v. Bowen

The respondent is charged with the murder of his^wife on October 31, 1909, by cutting her throat. Under the plea of not guilty, the respondent sought to show that he was mentally irresponsible at the time he committed the act. The case was here in 1911. See 165 Mich. 231 (130 N. W. 706). We then held that it was not competent, under the statute, for the respondent in his own behalf to testify to conversations that occurred between himself and wife on the occasion of, and immediately preceding, the homicide, as well as on other occasions, when they were alone. Because of certain rulings in the…