· 9/15/1833
Kerns v. Swope
Citations
- 2 Watts 75
How courts have described this case
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- “the mere establishment of the fact that the defendant had a mental age of a child of thirteen would not entitle him to the benefit of the presumption that he was incapable of forming a criminal intent”
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Judges: Gibson, Huston
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