Naugher v. State

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree for killing Dennis Burrow on the afternoon of December 2d, 1938, in the Greyhound Bus Station located in the city of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. The killing took place in the presence of the defendant’s wife and many others. Defendant did not deny that he killed Burrow, who was shot four times with a pistol and died shortly thereafter.

Defendant filed two pleas to the indictment : “not guilty” and “not guilty by reason of insanity.” In support of his plea of insanity, he introduced…