1:01:01
but this is a new wrinkle
I'm gonna try.
1:01:03
They do it in the Bayou, down South.
The idea, they get a big, long pole...
1:01:07
and about a ten-pound line,
just sort of...
1:01:09
drift along a high bank
in a boat.
1:01:11
Then you see that big, old bullfrog
in the crevice...
1:01:15
and sort of float this along
in front of him.
1:01:17
Pop! That old tongue of his
snaps out, and--
1:01:20
You've got frog legs
for supper.
1:01:22
- I'll be darned.
- Why don't you keep it?
1:01:24
- Try it sometime.
- Thanks. I will.
1:01:27
Four eighty-six.
1:01:30
- What is it, Your Honor?
- People v, Durfee, 1 886.
1:01:34
Looks like a precedent.
1:01:36
Would you like to read it?
1:01:39
No, thank you, Your Honor.
I think I recall the case.
1:01:44
We're hooked...
1:01:47
like the frog.
1:01:51
Dr. Harcourt, where did you receive
your university training?
1:01:54
Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland.
1:01:56
And where do you practice now?
1:01:58
I'm the medical superintendent of the
Bonder State Hospital for the Insane.
1:02:02
It's been stated here that...
1:02:04
dissociative reaction,
or irresistible impulse...
1:02:07
is not uncommon
among soldiers in combat.
1:02:10
- Do you agree with that statement?
- I do...
1:02:12
but not as it was put
by Dr. Smith.
1:02:14
- Where would you depart from Dr. Smith?
- Dissociative reaction...
1:02:18
is not something that comes out of
the blue and disappears as quickly.
1:02:22
It can only occur,
even among soldiers in combat...
1:02:26
if the individual has a psychoneurotic
condition of long standing.
1:02:30
It's been testified here that
a psychiatric exam of the defendant...
1:02:33
showed no evidence of neuroses...
1:02:36
and no history
of dissociative reaction.
1:02:38
You've further heard it testified...
1:02:40
that the defendant's behavior
on the night of the shooting...
1:02:42
was cool and direct.
1:02:45
As an observer,
do you remember this testimony?
1:02:48
From this, have you formed an opinion
about the defendant's sanity...
1:02:52
on the night of the shooting?
1:02:54
I'm of the opinion that he was in
possession of his faculties...
1:02:57
so that he was not dominated
by his unconscious mind.