Show with the permission of counsel DR Di it ARTHUR A city prison physician of sacramento Calif who has studied crime and ita it medical and psychological L through gnap yeara says that most of the medical defense of jl criminals is poppycock he ile says that most of the t ilar about glands and depies depressions being responsible lor for crime is acrel merely a N ruse csc f reported resorted to by crit criminal ninal lawyers to secure freedom fur for clients k are hopelessly gelty by hoodwinking juries he ile says sap crime is something far more subtle than glands after more is known of the corkings vor kings of the human mind and nervous system he lie believes it may bo be possible poh sible to establish dimes clinics to assist courts and police to bring abig about the crimi criminals nils themselves aru unintentionally helping ba b supplying subject subjects for tests and analysis wa la in this opinion dr ancill voices the opinion of practical all every educated layman who has to tb brie to acir iri wi the subject recently an eminent alien alienist who ipso it day for hig his services as a witness for tha defence defense in the goeb caso case in U chicago for about abolt ten days nearly lost his ob as bead lend of a largo large institution because tho the board disapproved of buch met raef enary activity on his ills part he ile was saved by the prevalence bf the theory that a doctor had bad aa as much right to sell his ser services ices as anybody else so he has and so has a carpenter out but few would N approve of a cir e ir penter belling selling Us lie skill for the building budding of a structure o over oer er which convicts eoll Vict would escape from jail if he be knew that was the purpose of it in advance as tho the testifying alienist knows A little learning is a dangerous thing it is because aa as a whole wo we know enough about psychology and physiology to feel that there is something ing more to crime than mere incorrigibility that we nic become the victims of there the re legal charle charlatans tans and have lave permitted crimi crim nal 1 jurisprudence to bulk so largely in our courts no one is so easily deceived as ho he who ianos knows div just qt enough about a subject to think ho lie really knows something so methin that is why judges gravely pass poss on to juries eap exp expert rt neither the judges nor the juries are competent to comprehend and decide upon and both become the victims vit tims ei of the astute criminal lawyer |