Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-07 | Page 11 | Howard Will Base Defense upon Insanity

i HOWARD HOARD Will ILL BASE DEFENSE UPON INSANITY Prosecution Opposes Move to Prove Temporarily Unbalanced Unbalanced Unbalanced Un Un- balanced Mind MindA A plea of temporary insanity coupled with intoxication will vili form the defense for W. W E. E Howard Jr charged with first degree murder in connection with the death August 11 of his father W W. E. E Howard Young Howard's Howards attorneys orneys told the Jury this m in the opening statement of their case Monda Monday A few minutes later when they at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to introduce the testimony o of Dr Foster J. J Curtis and Dr Garland Pace in support of the insanity theay theory the the- ory y Iy the move was blocked temporarily temporarily temporarily tempo tempo- by s state ste te attorneys The latter contended no ground had been laid to receive the alienists alienists' testimony I IThe The defense then called caned Mrs Lillian Lillian Lil Lil- Lil- Lil lian han Wirth Howard step-mother step of the defendant Her testimony relative to a phone conversation last June after young Howard received a head injury was also temporarily blocked by the district attorney Legal Leeal arguments arcu- arcu ments meats on the admissibility of Mrs Howards Howard's testimony which is supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to be part of the foundation for forthe forthe forthe the alienists' alienists testimony continued during durine the afternoon Attorneys for Howard also intend to call caU the defendants defendant's mother Mrs Mary Hunter Howard to tell ten the jury about the defendants defendant's early life Dr E. E D D. Hammond physician for forthe forthe the Howard family for the past 15 years was the first witness called caned by bythe bythe bythe the defense He testified relative to toan toan toan an Injury suffered by young oung Howard last June which caused the defendant defendant defend defend- ant to become mentally unbalanced for a period of about 10 days The doctor said no X-ray X photos were taken at the time and that the skull may have been f fractured a c