Acree v. State

CHAPMAN, J.:

The record in this case discloses that Perry Aeree, the appellant, was adjudged insane and admitted as a patient to the Florida State Hospital for the Insane at Chattahoochee, Florida, on June 15, 1934, and there diagnosed as “chronic alcoholism; suicidal and homicidal tendencies and dementia praecox.” Aeree, on December 30, 1936, was discharged from the hospital. He was readmitted to the hospital on April 9, 1937, and by the medical staff of the State Hospital diagnosed viz: “It is the concensus of opinion that he (Aeree) is a constitutional psychopath, chronic alcoholic, high…