Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-10
JUR YRETURNS
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the stipulation, legal authorities
pointed out that it would be up to
Judge Trabllcco to make ruling on
this point of the new law. In that
case he might rule that the evidence
in the sanity trial already had estab-
lished the degree of guilt or he might
ask that witnesses be called to estab-
lish the crime Even in the latter
case it would be brief and routine
action, legal authorities said.
The closing scenes of the trial
which started January Is, moved
rapidly.
The convicted man sat bolt upright
as the jury foreman read his findings.
He looked straight ahead as he has
looked the greater part OF every day
during his trial
Maintaining his pose, Hickman.
with his guard at his side, walked
from the courtroom with a firm
step, back to his cell in the county
Jail.
During the final day of his trial
Hickman heard in turn the thund-
erous philippic of District Attorney
Keyes' denunciation, the low toned
plea of his defense made. by his
associate counsel, Richard Cantillon.
and the short-clipped business like
instructions of Judge Trabucco to the
jury.
Keyes, a veteran in prosecution,
heaped contempt and scorn on the
prisoner, pictured him a calculating
cold-blooded killer actuated by greed
for money rotten to the core, but
sane"
Standing in front of the jury box
and addressing the elderly and middle
aged men and women who sat in 1t,
the prosecuting attorney declared that
"it was only owing to the fact that
we are civilized that a mob did not
take this man from the officers OF
the law, and it it were not that
was an officer of the law / should
have wanted to be In the front
ranks of such mob to help put
rope around this mans neck"
'This defendant has committed the
most atrocious crime on record, so
far as I can find out"
In sharp contrast to the lsonorouS
periods OF the district attorney was
the quiet, low-voiced plea OF Can
tillon, who condemned the prisoners
confessed crime but urged the jury
tc consider him insane in its COM
missicn.
Cantillon recalled the evidence that
he asserted tended to show the taint
of insanity in the Hickman family
and asked the jury to believe that
the strain was continued in the SON
i Judge Trabucco took less than 20
minutes to instruct the jurors, the
keynote Of his address being that the
sole issue was whether or not the
defendant was sane or insane at the
time of the crime.
+; He pointed out that the law re-
fuses to recognize plea OF "uncon'
trollable impulse" Further, the jury
Z was required to find Hickman SAINT
it it had been shown that l1e had
or has lucid moments.
! To be adjudged insane, said Judge
j Trabucco, his mind must have beer
affected to the extent tnat ne
did not know the difference between
right and wrong.
I Turning to defense evidence, the
court instructed the jurors that q
slight preponderance OF evidence
would be sufficient to warrant g
verdict of insane.
Finally, the eight men and foui
women in the box were told thai
they should reach their verdict un-
influenced by pity or sympathy fol
Hickman and unswayed by prejudice
against him.
All day the courtroom had beer
forced to more than capacity by tn
crowds of curious drawn to the seen
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