Warner v. State

HOBSON, Justice.

Appellant was indicted for first-degree murder, and pleaded not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, and later made a voluntary recommendation of extreme leniency. Appellant does not deny firing the shots which resulted six days later in his wife’s death, but testified that he could not remember the immediate circumstances surrounding the commission of the act charged.

The court appointed two' disinterested psychiatrists, Doctors Jarrett and Kells, to examine the appellant, and both testified at the trial. The…