The Goodson Family

[Debra Arif]

Have I got this right? Cutbush was found unfit to plead (so no trial) and was sent to an asylum for the criminally insane despite not having been found guilty of a crime.


Goodson was acquitted (so a trial) and what's more he was acquitted on grounds of insanity.

That's right, Robert.
IIRC the Criminal Lunacy Act 1884 gives three types of criminal lunatic; those found insane on arraignment (like Cutbush), those known to be insane at the time they committed the crime and those who became insane after sentencing and whilst serving a prison sentence.