Jones v. State

The appellant was tried and convicted of murder, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. His defense was insanity. On that question much testimony was introduced, both on the part of defendant and of the state. At the conclusion of the testimony the court was moved by the state to exclude , all the ■evidence of insanity, which had been offered by the defendant, which motion the court sustained, leaving in the testimony *271offered on behalf of the state to show insanity, part of which was the fact that he had killed three other men before killing the deceased. This action of the court is…