State v. McCullough

The defense was insanity. Defendant had been three times convicted of like offenses, before a justice of the peace, prior to the commission of the crime, in question. The property taken on the occasion under consideration was a schoolbook, of the value of 75 cents. Defendant, who was 18 years of age, was a pupil in the high school of Osage, bright and industrious in study, leading some of his classes. The book was taken from the desk of a fellow pupil and exchanged at a storo in the city for a fishing reel or clothes brush. The evidence in the case on the part of defendant was all directed to…