Merriam-webster.com defines insanity as “a deranged sense of mind usually occurring as a specific disorder.” In legal terms, to consider someone insane is much more detailed and difficult to prove, but with evidence, proving so can be very possible. Insanity in legal terms means that, during the event of the crime, the killer is unable to control himself with strange impulses, mistakes right from wrong, and confuses the real world from make-believe fantasies. The my client, the killer of the elderly man, is legally insane and can be proven with many statements and incidents, all which have been revealed in an interview with Poe. During the interview, the killer admitted in full detail the happenings of the night the elderly man was found in
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During the beginning of the killer’s telling of what had actually happened, he states that “I heard things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell”( Poe 203). This man truly believes that he has the ability to hear all and he is making impossible occurrences up, which are obviously incapable to really happen. Also, the accused reveals that he had heard the heartbeat of the elderly man both before and after the murder had taken place. During the first incident, the killer had been too far away from the old man to be capable of actually hearing the heartbeat from where the murderer watched(Poe 204-205). In the second account, the elderly man was already dead after being killed by the accused, so hearing the old man’s heartbeat was clearly impossible (Poe 207). Now that one section of the insanity criteria has been addressed, let us move forward onto the next piece of …show more content…
The murderer insisted on going through with his plan to rid himself of the vulture eye forever, and putting away with the old man appealed as a good idea the accused. Right before the old man was murdered by the killer, the accused states “Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers-of my sagacity”(Poe 203). What is haunting is that the murderer believed he was not wrong and took “wise precautions” in concealing the body by cutting it into pieces and stuffing the remains of the old man under the floorboards (Poe 206). All of this together reveals that the killer could not right from
During the beginning of the killer’s telling of what had actually happened, he states that “I heard things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell”( Poe 203). This man truly believes that he has the ability to hear all and he is making impossible occurrences up, which are obviously incapable to really happen. Also, the accused reveals that he had heard the heartbeat of the elderly man both before and after the murder had taken place. During the first incident, the killer had been too far away from the old man to be capable of actually hearing the heartbeat from where the murderer watched(Poe 204-205). In the second account, the elderly man was already dead after being killed by the accused, so hearing the old man’s heartbeat was clearly impossible (Poe 207). Now that one section of the insanity criteria has been addressed, let us move forward onto the next piece of …show more content…
The murderer insisted on going through with his plan to rid himself of the vulture eye forever, and putting away with the old man appealed as a good idea the accused. Right before the old man was murdered by the killer, the accused states “Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers-of my sagacity”(Poe 203). What is haunting is that the murderer believed he was not wrong and took “wise precautions” in concealing the body by cutting it into pieces and stuffing the remains of the old man under the floorboards (Poe 206). All of this together reveals that the killer could not right from