State v. Clancy

By the Court,

Norcross, C. J.:

Appellant was convicted of robbery in the Second judicial district court in and for the county of Washoe, and he-appeals.

[1] At the trial the defendant interposed the defense of insanity and assigns error in the giving of the following instructions:

"You are instructed that the law presumes every man sane until the contrary is shown by the evidence, and before the defendant can be excused on the ground of insanity the jury must believe from the evidence that the defendant at the time of the commission of the crime was without sufficient reason to know what he was…