Norris ex rel. Schwartz v. Brunswick

How courts have described this case

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• “whether the act was the offspring of insanity: if it was, a criminal intent did not produce it”
• in a murder prosecution, evidence of the defendant’s similar attack on another victim, just minutes before the murder, “was probative of the defendant’s intent to stab uncooperative victims”
• evidence of killing before eyewitnesses does not preclude finding of premeditation and deliberation
• “[T]he test for criminal insanity is whether insanity negated criminal intent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).