RE: [DL] What to do with Loonies

["Heivilin, Jim" <banzai@missouri.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: toadpooka@juno.com [mailto:toadpooka@juno.com]
> Subject: Re: [DL] What to do with Loonies
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> dry.  "Not
> Guilty by reason of insanity" only existed in the big cities, 
> and being
> locked up in an asylum was often worse than prison or a hangin'.
> 
I'm sure Steve Long or one of the others here with legal expertise can
correct me but something tickles the back of my brain saying that this
defense wasn't legitimized (or perhaps more commonly used) until the 50's or
60's.  

Jim