French v. State

JOHNSON, Presiding Judge.

Counsel for the plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, sets forth fourteen separate assignments of error in his petition in error. However, he states in his brief that he will only urge two of these assignments:

“(1) The trial court erred in overruling the motion of the defendant for a trial on the issue of insanity before the issue of the crime was tried.

*911“(2) Error of the court in giving oral instructions to the jury after the case had been submitted.”

The Court would first like to commend both counsel for the very excellent briefs in this case.…