See: 4 Wigmore on Evidence (2nd ed.), sec. 1917, pp. 100-109; Thayer, Cases on Evidence (2nd ed.), p. 672, note; 3 Chamberlayne, Modern Law of Evidence, Sec. 2376, pp. 3228-9.
2.
Winans v. New York & Erie R. R. Co., 21 Howard 88 (at 101).
3.
In re Peterson, 253 U. S. 300 (at 312).
4.
Meek v. Wheeler, Kelly & Hagny Inv. Co., 251 Pac. Rep. 184 (Kansas).
5.
People v. Dickerson, 129 N. W. Rep. 199.
6.
People v. Scott, 326 Ill. 327.
7.
Chapter 90, Acts of 1927 (Colorado).
8.
Chapter 677, Acts of 1927 (California).
9.
State v. Strasburg, 60 Wash. 106.
10.
Chapter 415, Acts of 1921. Amended by Chapter 105, Acts of 1929 (Mass.) For a detailed description of this law, see Sheldon Glueck, Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law, Boston, 1925, pp. 58-72, and Winfred Overholser, Practical Operation of the Massachusetts Law Requiring the Psychiatric Examination of Certain Persons Accused of Crime, Mass. Law Quarterly, Vol. XIII, No. 6, pp. 35-49.
11.
Winfred Overholser, Psychiatric Service in Penal and Reformatory Institutions and Criminal Courts in the United States," Mental Hygiene, Vol. XII, No. 4, pp. 801-838 (October, 1928).
12.
See Prisoners: 1923, U. S. Census, p. 24, table 9.
13.
Chapter 309, Acts of 1924 (Mass.)
14.
See Bernard Glueck, Concerning Prisoners, Mental Hygiene, Vol. II, p. 177 (1918).
15.
Bernard Glueck , Report on the Ninth International Prison Congress, Mental Hygiene, Vol. X, No. 1, pp. 113-129, January, 1926.
16.
S. Glueck , Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law, pp. 485-7, and Principles of a Rational Penal Code, Harvard Law Review, Vol. XLI, No. 4, pp. 453-482.
17.
Governor's Message to the Legislature, New York Legislative Document No. 3, pp. 53-54 (1928).
