Can.

Author of "The Law of Expert and Opinion Evidence," "A Concordance of Words,
Phrases and Definitions," "Usages and Customs," "Leading Cases Simplified,"
"The Contracts of Common Carriers," Etc., Etc.

"There is, perhaps, no subject connected with common law upon which the authorities are
more hopelessly in conflict than this.”—Cunningham v. State, 56 Miss. 269.

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ST. LOUIS:

F. H. THOMAS & CO.

1884.

PREFACE.

The design of this work is to present in a single volume all the reported cases where insanity has been set up in defence of a criminal charge and has been passed upon by a court of justice in America or Great Britain. I have endeavored to give every reported case of this kind. If the case turned wholly on the topic of Insanity then the case is given in full; if there were other questions involved then only that part relating to insanity is given, But in one way or another all that the reports contain on the subject will, I think, be found in this volume. This book, therefore, will enable the judge or criminal lawyer to have, in the trial of any cause where this defence is urged, all the authorities in the court-room at one time. Without this collection such a result could only be obtained by procuring at great labor and expense some five hundred volumes of reports.

In the notes I have tried to set out a careful and thorough statement of the law relating to the defence of Insanity in Criminal Cases.

ST. LOUIS, March, 1884.

J. D. L.