The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-09-04
GRANDERY'S MIND
WAS UERAEGED
HIS ACT WAS The IRREPREssl-
BILE DEED or INSANITY OF
or IMPULSE.
IN OPINION OF DR.. PADGEIT
Defendant Unable at Time of Killing
To Control His Actions in
The Matter.

= Answering a hypothetical question
III which the testimony Of the defend
ant and the eorroborative evidences
OF the witnesses for the defendan
were detailed at length and the life
the character and disposition OF th'
defendant before and after the sep
aration from his wife and as it wa
at the time of the killing were SCI
forth, DR.. Hazel Padgett, an expert
In the treatment Of mental trouble
and nervousness, testified that the
killing was the result of an unsound
condition of the mind.
Continuing the subject further, Dr.
Padgett said that the condition of the
party described in the hypothetical
question was one Of an unsound mind,
and the deed was the result of an in
sane impulse. 1t was the result of an
irresistible impulse due to the derang-
ed condition of the mind. Asked if
the young man described in the hypo-
thetical question was capable under
the circumstances at the time of the
commission of the deed of distinguish
ing right from wrong the witness said
yes, to a certain extent, but that he
could not sufficiently distinguish be-
tween right and wrong to resist the
commission of the deed.
The question submitted to DR.. Pad
gett and prepared by the counsel for
The defense covered twenty closely
written pages of typewriter matter
and contained upwards of 5000
words, rivaling in length the celebrat-
ed hypothetical questions that the
counsel in the Thaw case submitted
to the alienists. The statement began
with the birth of the defendant; it
described his rearing and his habits;
told of his marriage at twenty-five
to a girl whom he had fallen much in
love with; of their moving to st. LOU
is; their early and happy married,
life;s their having been supported in
part by contributions form home;
their return to Tennessee; their life
at Mt Pleasant; the domestic troub-
les of the couples as developed in the
evidence; their separation; the
change in the condition of the young
man thereafter as testified to by his
immediate family; his condition prior
to and at the time of the killing; his
statement Immediately thereafter;
the stories that were detailed to him
Of the reports circulated about his
wife and their effect upon his mind,
and coming on down relating all the
evidence of the defendant in consec.
utive, concise and chronological order
the statement was, in brief, story |
of the life of the defendant from birth
to the tragedy.
The reading Of this question by Mr.
Hughes occupied perhaps half an
hour and it was listended to with
marked attention by the jury and by
the spectators, for every one realized
who heard it that it was the state
ment of the case at the bar from the
of the defense. The ques-
ton was admirably worded and re-
fected in its composition much cred
it upon counsel who prepared it.
In addition to the above evidence
the defense had read to the Court
the deposition of Harry Harlan, ia
ken on Saturday morning at Mt.
Pleasant. The evidence of Harlan
the defendant as to the
reports which Harlan had brought to
Cranberry concerning remarks Long
IS alleged to have made rejecting
Ipon the character Of the wife of the
defendant.
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