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Show DOCTORS TESTIFY IN SNEED MURDER CASE VBKNON. Tex.. Feb. Il.-Two phyiil-cianii. phyiil-cianii. Dr. D. C. Darnell and I., J. E. Bdnon. both of Vernon, toattftad that tn their opinion J. n Hnaod was &ot capable of judflnir between right and wrong when be klllad Ai O. Boyca, Jr., at Amartllo laat 8ptambar; that h was not capable of criminal Intent at the time and that when he saw Boyca hla reaaon waa dethroned. The phyelclana were called aa witnesses for the defenee at the trial of Sneed, charted with murder. mur-der. tr. Darnell aupplemented hie original atatement with the aaaertUm that Bneed probably would have killed all the Boycea If he had even thera at tha moment mo-ment he killed Ai Boyce. the condition of hla mind helnf auch that he waa Incapable In-capable of reflection or reasoning and waa guv emed entirely by hla aubcon-cloue aubcon-cloue mind. Dr. Darnell aald that Kneed juat be-, fore the killing waa Buffering from melancholia mel-ancholia produi-ed by fear and whan he caught alght of AI Boyce hla reaaon quickly left him and he became Irra-ponalble. Irra-ponalble. On croea-ejcamtnatlon Sneed Identified for the atate two lettera. one from a telegraph tele-graph operator at Houeton to Snaed divulging di-vulging contenta of a meaeage purporting purport-ing to have been from AI Boyce which the operator had heard going over the wire bidding a Mrs. Perklna of LouIalane to come to DaJlaa to prevent Sneed from again locking up hla wife. The other waa from Mr. Perklna to Mre. Sneed In which ahe Invited the latter to vlett Lake Charlea. La. Tha defenae practically cloeed tta caae thla afternoon, ft ta expected that alt testimony will I in tomorrow morn- log. I |