Blackburn v. State

COATS, Judge.

On September 20, 1981, Raymond Blackburn shot his brother Dan with a .45 caliber pistol while Dan was sleeping. The bullet lodged in Dan’s rib cage but fortunately did not do permanent damage. Blackburn was acquitted because of insanity of the class A felony of first-degree assault. 1

After a September 23, 1982 commitment hearing, Judge Victor D. Carlson found that probable cause existed to believe that Blackburn was suffering from mental disease which caused him to continue to be a danger to the public peace and safety. He committed Blackburn to institutional treatment for a term…