Quattlebaum v. State

1. In this distressing case it appears that the defendant had, from his earliest infancy, been afflicted with epilepsy. He has, however, no cause to complain of the charge on the subject of insanity; for the court fully and fairly submitted to the jury the question whether the homicide was committed during a lucid interval, instructing them that before they could convict they must find not only that the defendant knew the difference between right and wrong, and was mentally capable of choosing to do or not to do the alleged act, but that they must also find that he was capable of governing…