Carroll v. State

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Upon the question of sanity or insanity, which was the sole defense interposed by the accused, there being evidence from which the jury could find either for or against the accused on this issue, the trial judge did not err in overruling the motion for new trial upon the general grounds.

Error is alleged on the following portion of the charge: “Where the issue of insanity is involved, the burden is on the defendant to show to the reasonable satisfaction of the jury that at the time of the alleged commission of the act charged…