Hackathorn v. State

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, death.

The testimony of the state shows that the appellant killed Bobbie Smith, a woman, by shooting her three times with a pistol above the left ear, the three bullets passing through and lodging in the right side of the brain, and causing her death instantaneously.

The appellant did not testify, but called his mother and a psychiatrist whose testimony supported his defense of insanity.

In rebuttal, the state called two doctors trained and experienced in the practice of psychiatry and four lay witnesses, all of whom expressed…