State v. Detar

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

In an information Delos Detar was charged with assault upon J. E. Eaton, an assistant cashier of a bank, with a deadly weapon, and in a second count he was charged with felonious entry of the bank with intent to rob. Under the first count he was convicted of simple assault, and on the second count of bank robbery. The question of his sanity was raised at the opening of the case, and in the course of the trial four physicians who were called testified that they had known the defendant for years and that he had been and was of unsound…