McHargue v. State

Appellant was charged, by indictment, with murder in the first degree, and was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for life. The only questions presented for review arise upon appellant’s exception to the order overruling his motion for a new trial. Appellant entered a plea of not guilty, and a special plea that at the time of committing the act charged as a crime he was of' unsound mind, and the state filed a reply of denial to the special plea. The undisputed evidence proved, without contradiction, that at the time and place charged in the indictment appellant came into a factory where…