Donald W. Satterwhite v. United States

The trial judge denied the appellant’s motion for a directed verdict on the ground of insanity, whereupon the jury returned its verdict of guilty of robbery. The sole question on appeal involves the sufficiency of the Government’s proof of the appellant’s sanity at the time of the commission of the offense where substantial evidence of insanity had been offered in behalf of the appellant.

The record shows that the appellant on January 2, 1958, had violently robbed his victim. Appellant under order of court had thereafter been committed to the District of Columbia General Hospital. There under…