Court Opinion

ID: 9732382
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:18:28.594381+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:27.037999
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Dethmers, J.
(concurring). I concur with Mr. Justice Thomas M. Kavanagh that in this matter we should reverse and remand for new trial for the first reason stated in his opinion, namely that the “sum total of the people’s proofs whereby they attempt to establish defendant’s sanity beyond a reasonable doubt * * * was wholly inadequate to render any opinions of the lay witnesses as being competent under the law” as in his opinion set forth and stated. I disagree with the second reason stated *723in that opinion. I am unwilling to follow in this case Lyles v. United States (1957), 103 US App DC 22 (254 F2d 725). For my position in this respect I find adequate citation of authority and reasoning in Mr. Justice T. M. Kavanagh’s opinion and regret that he did not choose to follow it.
T. E. Brennan, C. J., concurred with Dethmers, J.