“Not only at my suggestion but because of my positive orders. In his present nervous state, the patient would become highly excited if he were brought into a public hearing. I would not care to be responsible for the results following such an appearance. Mr. Leeds is a very sick man mentally.”
“You may cross-examine,” the attorney said to Perry Mason.
Mason sat slumped down in the mahogany swivel chair at the counsel table, his long legs stretched out in front of him, his chin sunk on his chest. He did not look at the witness.
“The patient was incoherent when you first saw him?” he asked, tonelessly.
“Yes.”
“Excited?”
“Yes.”
“Angry?”
“Yes.”
“And from these things you diagnosed a senile dementia?”