State v. Evans

Appellant, defendant below and whom we shall call defendant, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Laclede County of murder in the second degree, for the killing of one Manuel Noble, sentenced, pursuant to the verdict of the jury to ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary, and has appealed. The homicide is virtually admitted — at least it is shown by all the evidence, is not denied and may be taken as an established fact. The only defense offered was the alleged insanity or mental incapacity of the defendant.

The defendant, at the time of the homicide, was a man thirty to thirty-five years…