Register v. State

Plaintiff in error was found guilty by a jury of assault with intent to commit murder in the second degree and from the sentence and judgment of the Criminal Court of Record of Polk County adjudging him guilty of such offense and sentencing him to five years imprisonment therefor, has' prosecuted this writ of error.

The defense was insanity, to establish which some substantial evidence had been adduced at the trial. The issue of insanity as a defense had been submitted to the jury in the Court’s charge on the law of the case at the conclusion of the evidence, whereupon (as shown by the bill of…