From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!dan
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: temporary insanity and money
Article-I.D.: floyd.322
Posted: Thu Jun 24 13:12:46 1982
Received: Mon Jun 28 00:55:26 1982



A while back I heard a radio news story about a man who had found a bag of
money that had fallen out of the back of an armored truck.  The bag contained
several hundred thousand dollars, much of which the man started spending
wildly (of course).

Well, the cops caught up to him, arrested him, and brought him to trial on
some dumb charge.  His defense was that he went temporarily insane upon 
finding all that money.

The jury agreed with his contention unamimously, and he went free.

This is a true story (and an acceptable usage of the "insanity" plea).

I welcome comments.

Dan O'Connell