LUNACY AND CRIME.
HERMANN FOUND GUILTY. Sydney, March 18. In the Hermann case (he medical superintendent of the Callan Park Asylum, where Hermann stayed for three weeks, gave evidence that ne came to the conclusion that Hermann’s delusions were not genuine and that he was a sane man and not an epileptic. Counsel for (lie defence, addressing toe jury, said on llie evidence he 'could not ask for an outright acquittal, but he asked for a verdict of not guilty’ on the ground of intermittent insanity, adding that it ever he heard of a purposeless piece of stupiditv it was this of a man forging for’the fun of Hie thing and leaving his footprints with the certainty of detection. Counsel for the Crown contended that the careful and systematic acts involved in the case were those of a sane man. The jury found Hermann npt guilty of forgery but guilty of uttering. They strongly recommended him to mercy on account of his being a victim to intermittent epilepsy. Sentence was deferred.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 396, 19 March 1915, Page 3
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