Legal Opinion
Milton R. Dusky v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 3, 1961No. 16607_1PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.
This in forma pauperis criminal case, before us for the second time after the defendant’s conviction upon a plea of not guilty and a defense of insanity, now poses a precise but narrow and naked issue: With “some proof” bearing on insanity of the defendant having been introduced, Davis v. United States, 1895, 160 U.S. 469, 488, 16 S.Ct. 353, 40 L.Ed. 499, was the evidence as a whole sufficient to justify the jury’s conclusion, as a necessary factor in the conviction, that the defendant was legally sane at the time of the offense, or, in altexmate words, did the…
2Cases cited43 opinions
- Morissette v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Dusky v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Mallory v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Leland v. OregonSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Steward MacHine Co. v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
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3Cited by86 opinions
- Duane Earl Pope v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1967
- Commonwealth v. McHoulMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
- United States v. Charles FreemanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1966
- George Lee Mims, Sr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- Victor Harry Feguer v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1962
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