State v. Green

The defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree without recommendation and sentenced to be executed. He was charged with and convicted of the murder of his uncle James Green. He appeals and seeks a reversal of the judgment because of some of the instructions which were given to the jury, because some of his requested instructions to the jury were refused, and because the trial court refused to admit evidence offered by him to show that a cousin of his father and a cousin of his grandmother were insane. The chief ground relied upon by defendant in support of his plea of not guilty…