State v. Bruntlett

(dissenting) — In attempting to solve a problem of the kind before the court a pertinent historical resumé of the defendant is helpful. The matters here stated are very largely from the reports of the hospitals for the insane at St. Peter, Minnesota, and at Clarinda, Iowa. The defendant was born in Carroll County, Iowa, July 6, 1897. He had three brothers and two sisters. His father died at the age of sixty-three in 1927 either from apoplexy or by being crushed by a stallion. His mother was sixty-three in 1933 and lives at Vail, Iowa.

The family lived on a farm. The record shows that defendant…