Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-08-04

NO. 3 3$4' 81 [apqbIished May 81, 1911.
| AN ACT to amend section 1897 of the
statutes, relating to the trial of ques-
ton of insanity.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly
do enact as follows:
Section t. l, Section 4697 of the stat
! uteS is amended to read Section 4697.
J When any person is indicted or in
| formed against for any offense and
such person or counsel in his behalf
shall, al the time and before the COM
mencement OF the trial. claim or pre-
tend that such person, at the time of
the commission Of such alleged offense,
was insane and for that reason not re-
sponSiDIe Tor his acts the court shall
order special plea, setting up and al
le2lng such insanity, to be filed on his
behalf with the plea of not guilty; and
( be tried and deter
| mined by the jury with the plea of not
guilty; and II such jury shall find upon
such special issue that such accused
reasonable doubt of his sanity at the
time OF the commission Of such alleged
verdict of not guilty because insane.
| The presumption of such accused per-
sons sanity, at the time of the commits
sion Of such aIleged ofTenSe, shall pre-
vail and be sufficient proof thereof on
the trial OF such special issue,
unless the evidence produced on such
trial shall create in the minds of the
jury a reasonable doubt of the sanity
Of such accused person at the time of
the commission of such alleged offense
If the defendant shall be found by the
jury mot guilty because insane" he
shall forthwith be committed by the
court to one of the state hospitals for
the insane there to be detained and
treated until he shall be DISCHARGED ac-
cording to law. A re-examination Of
his sanity may be had as in the case
OF other patients, but no such person
so committed shall be discharged from
detention unless the magistrate Or the
jury upon whom deVOlVeS the duty to
pass upon his sanity shall in addition
to finding him sane also find shat he is
not likely to have such a recurrence OF
insanity as would result in acts which,
but for insanity, would constitute
crimes.
Section 2. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's pas
sage and publication.
Approved May 20, 1911. Copy Law.
No 91S, Al published May 81, 1911
CHAPTER 222. LAWS OF 1911.
AN ACT to amend section 2203 of the
statutes, relating to conveyances.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section /. Section 2203 of the stat
utes is amended to read Section 2203.
COnveyanCeS of land or any estate or
interest therein may he made by deed
signed and scaled by the person from
to pass, being Of lawful age, or by his
lawful agent or attorney, and ac-
knowledged or proved as directed in
this chapter, without any Other act or
ceremony whatever; but no mortgage
or other alienation by married man
of his homestead, exempt by law from
execution, or any interest therein, legal
or equitable, present or future, by deed
or otherwise without his Wtfe's consent.
evidenced by her act of joining in tho
the deed mortgage or other convey
ance. shall be valid or Of any effect
whatever, except a conveyance from
husband to wife; but when mistake
is made in the description of land oc-
cupied as homestead, the attempted
conveyance shall be construed as an
eXecutory contract to convey said
homes tead by said husband and wife.
and~the description of said land may at
any time be corrected as other convey
ances are corrected, and shall bind said
parties as fully as though it were cor
rectly described,
Section 2 This act shall take ofreoe