State v. Brosie

STRUCKMEYER, Vice Chief Justice.

Appellant was tried by jury and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The conviction was affirmed in the Court of Appeals, 24 Ariz.App. 517, 540 P.2d 136 (1975). We granted review to examine only the correctness of the trial court’s instruction on insanity. Judgment of conviction affirmed.

Appellant shot his wife’s paramour and then stabbed him 48 times. Two of the four psychiatrists who testified at his trial testified that he was insane at the time he committed the homicide. Edward Meshorer, M.D., whose specialty is in psychiatry, testified:

“Well, as I said…