State v. Robertson

The defendant was tried before a jury in the Superior Court on two indictments each of which charged him with murder. In each case be pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity, and was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He is now here on a bill of exceptions and the only excep tion he presses is to the trial justice’s refusal to permit a psychologist whom he called as a witness to testify in substance as to whether by reason of his mental condition he was unable to distinguish right from wrong.

The circumstances of the offenses, while not…