The question of the relation of epilepsy and crime acquired considerable prominence in the early part of the present year in connection with the trial of “Regina v. Hitchins.”* The defendant in this trial, the epileptic lad, who fatally shot his sister at Weston-super-Mare, is now an inmate of Broadmoor Asylum. A short time after his admission three other male patients were received who were also the victims of epilepsy; they, too, had committed acts of homicide which had engrossed a considerable share of public attention.