Hooter v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The conviction is for bigamy. The evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction. Appellant set up temporary insanity, brought about by the recent use of intoxicating liquors, and insists that a state of temporary insanity thus occasioned should bar a conviction, for the reason that while so effected he would be without the capacity to enter into the marriage agreement. Enforcing this theory, the appellant sought to have the court instruct the jury in substance that if at the time the marriage ceremony ivas performed, the appellant was in a state of temporary insanity from the…