Chapter 1624. To amend section nine hundred and twenty-seven of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, relating to insane criminals
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CHAP. 1624.— An Act To amend section nine hundred and twenty-seven of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, relating to insane criminals. April 14, 1906. [[S. 4426](/us/bill/34/s/4426).] [[Public, No. 99](/us/pl/34/99).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section nine hundredDistrict of Columbia.Code amendment.Vol. 31, p. 1340. and twenty-seven of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia.” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by the Acts approved January thirty-firstVol. 32, pp. 2. 520. and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 927. Insane criminals.—When any person tried upon anInsanity of criminals at time of the offense.When tried on information, added.Vol. 31, p. 1340, amended. indictment or information for an offense is acquitted on the sole ground that he was insane at the time of its commission, that fact shall be set forth by the jury in their verdict; and whenever a person is indicted or is charged by an information for an offense, and before trial or after a verdict of guilty, prima facie evidence is submitted to the court that the accused is then insane, the court may cause a jury to be impaneled from the jurors then in attendance on the court or. if the regular jurors have been discharged, may cause a sufficient number of jurors to be drawn to inquire into the insanity of the accused, and said inquiry shall be conducted in the presence and under the direction of the court. 114Confinement.If the jury shall find the accused to be then insane, or if an accused person shall be acquitted by the jury solely on the ground of insanity, the court may certify the fact to the Secretary of the Interior, who may order such person to be confined in the hospital for the insane, and said person and his estate shall be charged with the expense of his Appeal.support in the said hospital.
The person whose sanity is in question shall be entitled to his bill of exceptions and an appeal as in other cases.” " Approved, April 14, 1906.