Morales v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is Murder without Malice; the punishment, five (5) years.

The record reflects that the 19-year-old appellant, Mary Morales, was charged with the murder of a baby, apparently born to her out of wedlock.

Appellant urges at the outset that the trial court erred in failing to afford her a preliminary trial on the issue of her present insanity; that it further erred in failing to halt the trial on the merits when such issue was raised by the evidence and conduct a hearing on that issue and obtain a jury finding thereon before proceeding further; that it compounded…