Price v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for life.

The record reflects that appellant was indicted on the 11th day of July, 1945; that thereafter, on the 23rd day of April, 1946, an affidavit was filed in said cause charging him with being a person of unsound mind and incapable of conducting a rational defense. A trial was had before a jury on the issue of insanity alone, and they returned a verdict finding him sane. Thereafter, on the 16th day of May, 1946, he was put to trial for the offense of murder. Upon said trial the…