Cantwell v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

Cantwell was indicted with two co-defendants for aggravated assault and armed robbery of a hardware store in Hinesville, Liberty County, Georgia. Following arraignment, appellant filed on October 31,1977, a special plea of insanity, which the jury found true on November 1, 1977. After four months in Central State Hospital where he was diagnosed as schizophrenic, appellant was released and returned to Liberty County. On February 17, 1978, appellant again filed a special plea of insanity; there being no evidence that appellant was then insane, and appellant’s attorney so…