State v. McKeown

To the information charging him with the crime of murder in the second degree, the defendant entered a plea of not guilty and a special plea of mental irresponsibility at the time the offense was committed. The trial resulted in a verdict of guilty as charged. This appeal is prosecuted from the judgment and sentence pronounced upon the verdict.

Evidence was introduced to sustain the plea of mental irresponsibility. Drs. Nicholson and Price, specialists in mental diseases, testified for the state in rebuttal. Each of the two alienists was permitted, over appellant’s objection, to give his…