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Now Members of the Jury, the accused himself has not
really told you anything about hallucinations.
The
accused has not told you that here, either in his state-
ment or in his evidence, but he may have told the Doctər.
You, Members of the Jury, have seen him throughout this
trial, so you have to be the judges of the facts. The
psychiatrist himself tells you that the accused showed no
gross disorientation, as to time and place. In other wor s
he knew who he was, and what was happening. But the
Doctor thought it strange when he discussed his psycho-
sexual condition, that a man of his age should have so
few lady friends in his life, apparently he started his
sexual activities rather late in life.
He summed up that the accused's intelligent quotient
was low and that it was a case of "mental retardation".
Now, Members of the Jury, you will have looked at
him throughout this trial, and you will have heard his
vocabulary. The Doctor said it was limited and the accused
himself tells you that he only got moved up in a class
because of his age, in other words that he was not a very
bright fellow at school. Well some students are slow and
some are sharp. I think you will know that. Then there was
a question of his having lost his memory, and the question
was put to the Doctor concerning what's amnesia. But the
Doctor told you quite precisely that amnesia is not
necessarily a disease of the mind. But he did tell you
that it was possible that the accused had some brain
damage. He told you the effect of marijuana, he told you
that it made some people passive and meditative and it
made some irritable and aggressive. The accused himself
tells you that he was a passive and meditative type.
that is one aspect of the psychiatrist's evidence where
So
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