Long v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary and assessed the lowest punishment.

The undisputed testimony undoubtedly showed that he burglarized a drug store at the time and place alleged in the indictment. It is unnecessary to state the testimony on this point.

His defense was that he was insane at the time he committed the burglary, or, as otherwise stated, that at thé time he was laboring under such defects of reason from disease of the mind produced by the recent use of morphine, cocaine, bromidia, or some other drug or narcotic, that he did not know the nature and quality of the…