State v. Brodes

Relator was indicted and convicted of murder, and sentenced to be hanged. This court, on appeal, set aside the sentence and remanded the case, “with instructions to try and determine, first, the question of whether accused was insane when tried and, if so, then to grant a new trial; otherwise to decree that the conviction shall stand; and, second,?’ it was ordered “that said court also try and determine the issue as to whether defendant has become insane since the trial, and in that event to direct his commitment to a state institution, to be held until sanity is recovered, when he is to be…