Bazanno v. State

In this case appellant was convicted in the district court of Orange county on May 21, 1909, on an indictment charging him with murder, of the offense of manslaughter,- and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of three years. The evidence showed a killing utterly without excuse, and there seems to be no occasion or necessity to set out here the facts. The defense relied on was that of insanity. There are no bills of exception in the record, and the motion for new trial raises but few questions, all of which we will now notice.

1. The first is that the…