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· 7/22/1897

McKeany v. Black

Citations

  • 117 Cal. 587
  • 49 P. 710
  • 1897 Cal. LEXIS 707

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that mere fact that victim of attempted rape was pregnant, without more connection to the attack, was immaterial and inadmissible and would serve only to inflame the jury
  • defendant crawled over sleeping husband and attempted to rape wife lying beside him
  • “Whether an act was caused by a diseased mind is to be determined primarily from the indicia presented by the act itself, and then from the results of an examination of the physical, moral, and mental condition of 16 the accused before, at, and after the act in question.” (emphasis added)

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Judges: Haynes

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