State v. Kenyon

The defendant was tried before a court consisting of three judges of the Superior Court on an indictment charging murder in the first degree. He Was convicted of murder in the second degree and has' appealed to this court. The sole defense was that he was insane at the time he committed the homicide. The only assignment of error is that the court erred in adjudging the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The specific claim is that, • as the state offered no medical evidence that the defendant was sane, it could not be found proven beyond reasonable doubt that he was sane, in view of…