WATTS v. STATE

[No. 28, September Term, 1960.]

223 Md. 268 (1960)

164 A.2d 334

WATTS v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 18, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene A. Alexander, III, for appellant.

Joseph S. Kaufman, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, Saul A. Harris and E. Thomas Maxwell, Jr., State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney of Baltimore City, respectively, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.


HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant was convicted of robbing a Baltimore bank. Through counsel, he relied upon a special plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. The first contention raised on appeal is that, although the defendant committed the acts charged, he was insane "within the purview and meaning of modern enlightened medical, psychiatric and legal evaluation of human behavior and therefore not responsible for the offense committed...

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