...law provides for the routine mental examination of all persons accused of capital offenses and those known to have been indicted for any other offense...or to have been previously convicted of a felony. Obviously, this law is attempting to encroach upon the traditional legal methods of doing things in...

...September, 1921.1 Since then the law has been slightly amended. The original act provided that, *• Whenever a person is indicted by a grand jury for a capital offense or vrbaiever a person, who is known to have been indicted for any other offense mon? than onee or to have...

...commitment expenses, — so as to read as follows: — Section 100 A. Whenever a person investigation is indicted by a grand jury for a capital offense...or to have been previously convicted of a felony, tion of certain is indicted by a grand jury or bound over for trial in the superior court, the clerk...

...murderers or for those indicted for manslaughter. Under the second category — consisting of persons known to have been indicted for any other offense more than once — those previously indicted but once cannot be examined. In the third category — of persons previously...

...requires a psychiatric examination of every person indicted by the grand jury for a capital offense, or who is known to have been indicted for any other offense...or to have been previously convicted of a felony. The State Department of Mental Diseases is not asked to declare such person sane or insane, but to...

...Stats. (1920), sec. 531. Wyoming. Stats. (1923), Vol. 1, Sec. 47OO (p. 2327) Wisconsin, -16• • . have been indicted for any other offense more than once, or to have been previously convicted of a 23 felony. As to methods of procedure once the mental condition of the accused is brought to the attention...

...the record, and the judgment is in all things Affirmed.1 Massachusetts Compulsory Examination Law.2 Whenever a person is indicted by a grand jury for a capital offense or whenever a person, 1 Accord: United States v. Chisolm (CC) 149 Fed. 284. The court in that ease charged the jury that...

...read as follows: — Section 100 A. investigation IITI ' ••j'o.ji. i • * •, i by department Whenever a person is indicted by a grand jury for a capital oi mental disoffense or whenever a person, who is known to have been ^"ditfoifof *"' indicted for any...

...hereby amended by inserting after section one hundred the following new section : — Section 1UOA. Whenever a person is indicted by a grand jury for...have been indicted for any other offense more than «nice or to have been previously convicted of a felony, is indicted by a grand jury or bound over...

...preceding October 15, 1927, had examined 382 persons indicted bv a grand jury for a capital offense or known to have been indicted for any other offense...or to have been previously convicted of a felony. Only 8.1 per cent of these persons examined were found to have a major psychosis, and only 22.3 per...