Gast v. State

THOMAS, Justice.

The defendant was indicted and convicted of murder in the first degree, and the jury fixed the penalty at “death in the electric chair.'”

This was a sufficient verdict on which judgment was rendered. Hull v. State, ante, p. 281, 167 So. 553.

The undisputed evidence shows that defendant killed his wife, reported his offense to neighbors, and immediately surrendered to the sheriff of his county. His defense was insanity, introducing one expert and several lay witnesses to show his unbalanced mental status, or that he was insane at the time the offense was committed and at the time…