ABSTRACT
Lord Goddard CJ: ... In this particular case, the only evidence given on the issue of insanity was that of the doctor called by the appellant and of the prison doctor who was allowed to be called by the prosecution to rebut, if indeed it were necessary, any evidence which had been given. It was probably right that the prison doctor should be called as he had had the appellant under constant observation. Both the doctors gave their evidence in a way that commended itself
to the judge, and both, without hesitation, expressed the view that the appellant knew, when administering this poison, for such as it was, to his wife, that he was doing an act which the law forbade. I need not put it higher than that.
