Waycaster v. State

The appellant, L. R. Waycaster, was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Quitman County on the charge of having murdered Mrs. Fay Ferguson, and was sentenced to be hanged. The testimony shows without conflict that he shot and killed the deceased without any real or pretended cause or provocation. The only defense interposed was the plea of insanity. The testimony both for the State and for the defense disclosed that the appellant’s state of mind had been abnormal during the last few months immediately prior to the killing’. However, all of the evidence relating to the issue of insanity…