It was a success. It was permanent. To the very last moment of his life he bewailed the ill luck that made her move her face just at the critical moment. This idiot was hanged. The plea of insanity was not offered.
Insanity certainly is on the increase in the world, and crime is dying out.
Of late years it does not seem possible for a man to so conduct himself, before killing another man, as not to be manifestly insane. If he talks about the stars, he is insane. If he appears nervous and uneasy an hour before the killing, he is insane. If, an hour after the murder, he seems ill at ease, preoccupied and excited, he is unquestionably insane. There is where the true evil lies.