Show J 11 t Pleading I Insanity s I It t is every indication that Gilbert L. L t I Brighton one of the trio charged with the killing of Charles A. A Faus wi will l plead insanity is as a a. defense Invariably the man with no other 1 out t ut ut for his crimes resorts to this course ourse with the result that laws laws' are dragged into the mire S To the sane man man every able bodied man who r resorts sorts to the ways of the underworld to in increase increase increase in- in crease crease his income has a screw loose some some- where I This however should not constitute insanity i in the eyes of the law Few criminals are insane int in- in t 1 sane in the degree that their mental condition their excuses crimes Even when they are tire not mentally alert they know the difference between right and wrong and are rare fully capable of keeping free free of the laws law's entanglements Brighton Undoubtedly undoubtedly un- un undertook an impossible task but this does does os not give him a a claim to insanity I The crime committed by Brighton and his confederates was deliberately planned The murder murder mur mur- der which attended the pl plot t to rob was not committed in a heat of passion It was mas but a logical result of a possible emergency to be considered in the original plot Desperateness rather than insanity marked the plot which h ended the life of a a. useful citizen and brought three persons under the shadow of the death sentence i If Brighton was insane when Faus was murdered murdered mur mur- murd d dered red all raIl men and all women who resort to lives of crime are insane But as a matter bf of fact there is no rio insanity issue in this case In Inthe th the meaning of the law Brighton was sane when the crime was committed Subsequent lapses are in the interest of effect in establishing someS some excuse for a a. c cold ld blooded rime prime The insanity S plea has been used so often that it has become becom ciff offensive to those holding a d deep p respect for the law Criminals and their attorneys should refrain from it when there is no basis for it in in fact I |