Word: orbison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Insanity v. Sanity filled the final days of the trial. From Los Angeles Drs. Thomas James Orbison and Edward Huntington Williams, frequent participants in Pacific Coast criminal trials, were summoned to testify for the defense. Alienist Orbison swore that Lieut. Massie was suffering from "delirium with ambulatory automatism" at the time of the shooting but that he was quite sane now. Dr. Williams declared that Lieut. Massie's glands were responsible for his unbalanced condition, that he had been temporarily afflicted with "chemical insanity or shock amnesia." Both experts agreed that his troubles had been brought on by intense...
...panic and murder. Another possibility was that Lawyer Darrow would claim that something occurred at the Fortescue cottage which produced in the defendants a state of temporary emotional insanity. Recalled was his success with an insanity plea in the Loeb-Leopold case when Drs. Edward Huntington Williams and James Orbison, California alienists, mysteriously arrived in Honolulu last week at the summons of defense counsel...