Owens v. State

OPINION

TATUM, Judge.

The defendant, David W. Owens, was sentenced to life imprisonment after conviction of murder in the second degree of his father. Reversed.

The defendant charges that the trial court erred (1) in submitting the issue of insanity upon the M’Naghten Rule, (2) in admitting into evidence an inculpatory statement made by him to police officers, and (3) in instructing the jury that Doctor Thatch testified that the defendant knew right from wrong. He also says that the evidence preponderates against the jury verdict.

The defendant entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.…