Lee v. State

FOSTER, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree for killing his father, and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment.

The trial was carefully conducted, and there was no error in any of the rulings unless the motion for a new trial should have been granted because the verdict was contrary to the great weight of the evidence to the extent that it is apparent that the jury was influenced by some improper motive or erroneous theory of the law of insanity as a defense, or unless the motion for a change of venue should have been granted.

On the latter question, we observé that…