State v. Crowe
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from, District Court, Yelloio stone County; Sydney Fox, Judge. Anthony J. Crowe was convicted of assault in the second degree and appeals. A layman may be permitted to testify as to the sanity or insanity of a defendant, he first having detailed the facts upon which he bases his conclusion. (State v. Schuff, 9 Idaho, 115, 72 Pac. 664; Connecticut M. L. Ins.
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Appeal from, District Court, Yelloio stone County; Sydney Fox, Judge. Anthony J. Crowe was convicted of assault in the second degree and appeals. A layman may be permitted to testify as to the sanity or insanity of a defendant, he first having detailed the facts upon which he bases his conclusion. (State v. Schuff, 9 Idaho, 115, 72 Pac. 664; Connecticut M. L. Ins. Co. v. Lothrop, 111 U. S. 612, 28 L. Ed. 536; Holland v. Zollner, 102 Cal. 633, 36 Pac. 930; Burt v. State, 38 Tex. Cr. 397, 40 S. W. 1000, 43 S. W. 344, 39 L. R. A. 305; People v. Young, 151 N. Y. 210, 45 N. E. 460; Elliott on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holloway
delivered the opinion of .the court.
The defendant was convicted of assault in the second degree, and appeals from the judgment and from an order denying him a new trial.
1. Upon the cross-examination of Pat Crowe, a brother of the defendant and a witness in his behalf, he was asked by the county attorney: “Are you the same Pat Crowe who was connected with the Cudahy kidnaping in Omaha?” And again: “You have been more or less directly connected with other offenses of the same character for the past eighteen years, have you not?” To each of the questions counsel for the defendant objected, but…
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