Cox v. State

Banke, Presiding Judge.

After he was indicted for the murder of his brother in 1980, the appellant entered a special plea of insanity and was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He has since been confined involuntarily at the Georgia Regional Hospital. This appeal is from the denial in June of 1983 of an application for his release, filed pursuant to OCGA § 17-7-131.

The trial court heard testimony from various members of the hospital staff, including a doctor, two nurses, and a chaplain, and from the appellant and his mother. It appears without dispute from this testimony that the…