Blake v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; punishment fixed at 'death.

The circumstantial evidence and the direct evidence, consisting of the admission and confession of the appellant, are quite sufficient to support the jury’s finding that the appellant shot and killed the deceased and robbed- him. His principal defense was insanity due to the excessive use of narcotics.

Bill of Exceptions No. 1 relates to the action of the court in declining to continue the preliminary hearing upon the issue of present insanity. Upon that hearing, which took place on the 25th of May, the jury found…