Reedy v. State

SIMPSON, Justice.

Daniel F. Reedy appeals from a death sentence following conviction of. rape.

The main question presented for consideration arises under the issue of insanity which was interposed by the usual special plea, so only reference to the facts as are necessary to this consideration will be indulged in.

Reedy and his codefendant, Hockenberry, nineteen and twenty years of age respectively, after having “mugged and slugged” (Reedy’s expression) the hospital guard, escaped from the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, Washington, D. C., February 1, 1944, stole an automobile and made their way…