Choisnet v. State

Hunstein, Justice.

Appellant Fredrick Choisnet, Jr., was indicted and tried for murder and related charges in connection with the stabbing death of his elderly father. Choisnet pled riot guilty by reason of insanity, claiming he suffered from mental illness that had rendered him incapable of distinguishing right from wrong in relation to his crimes and caused him to suffer under the delusion that his father was planning to kill him and his mother. The jury found Choisnet guilty but mentally ill, and Choisnet now appeals, contending that the trial court’s instructions to the jury were erroneous…