Layne v. State

OPINION

GALBREATH, Judge.

In his usual courtly and eloquent manner, the Honorable H. H. Gearinger of the Chattanooga Bar as counsel for plaintiff in error seeks to persuade us that the conviction in this case for second degree murder resulting from the reckless use of a motor vehicle should be reversed because the defendant at the time was under the influence of barbiturate drugs to such an extent and in such manner as to render him temporarily insane due to involuntary intoxication.

There is no dispute as to the physical facts adduced at trial from which the jury found the defendant, while…