Curlee v. State

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a conviction of murder in the second degree with penalty fixed at sixty years’ imprisonment.

That the deceased, Florian Doggett, died of a knife wound in the throat inflicted by this defendant is proven without dispute. Defendant interposed his plea of “not guilty” and “not guilty by reason of insanity”. There is no real insistence that defendant struck in self-defense. Nor was there any proof of any disease of the mind or insanity of defendant. True, he states he was in a stupor and remembered nothing concerning any assault upon deceased, against…