Supreme Court of Pennsylvania January 11, 1836 (In re Beaumont)

Kennedy, X,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case presents but one question, and that is, whether the finding of the inquest shows that John Beaumont was non compos mentis, within the meaning of this phrase or term, as used in the sixth section of the fifth article of the constitution, whereby the Supreme Court, and the several Courts of Common Pleas of this State, among- other things,