In Re Maas

Opinion of the court by

Burwell, J.:

Conrad Maas was indicted, tried and convicted for the crime of murder in the district court of Blaine county. The defendant then filed his motion ícr a new trial, which was overruled. He then filed his motion in arrest of judgment, and in support thereof introduced in evidence, over the objection of the attorneys for the Territory, certain affidavits and the records ot the probate court, for the purpose of showing that the county board of insanity had adjudged Maas to be insane, and to establish by such records and affidavits that Maas was insane at that…