Edwards v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to murder, and his punishment assessed at three years in the penitentiary ; hence this appeal.

Appellant’s principal defense was insanity. He offered testimony tending to show that at the time of the alleged offense he was insane. The evidence shows that for a considerable length of time—perhaps several years—he had been addicted to the use of morphine, and for the last eighteen months to the use of cocaine; and he was also addicted to the use of whisky. Some three or four days prior to the assault he had been confined to his…