Humphrey v. State

The indictment in this case, procured on May 10, 1932, charges the defendant with committing murder on April 26, 1932. On May 13, 1932, the case was called for trial in Jenkins superior court; whereupon the accused filed substantially the following plea:

The case should be dismissed because the defendant is insane, he “having been legally adjudged insane by a lunacy commission appointed by the ordinary of Jenkins county on the 5th day of May, 1932.”

“That at the time of said lunacy hearing there was not an indictment nor any other charge pending in this court nor any other court against the…