Blocker v. State

The defendant, plaintiff in error here, was indicted by a grand jury of Dade County for the crime of murder in the first degree. Upon trial he was found guilty of murder in the first degree with recommendation for mercy. He was adjudged guilty and condemned to life imprisonment. To review the judgment writ of error was taken from this court.

The defense interposed was insanity at the time of the alleged homicide.

The giving of each of the following instructions to. the jury by the trial court is assigned as error:

“The court instructs the jury that mere weaknesses of intellect will not shield…