State v. Rumble

The opinion of the court was delivered by

MASON, J.:

Charles Rumble was convicted of murder in the second degree and appeals. It was admitted that he shot and killed, without any provocation or apparent cause, a man who so far as the evidence shows was a total stranger. The theory of the defense was that he was insane. The state maintained that he was merely intoxicated. The most important assignments of error relate to the exclusion of evidence bearing upon the question of his sanity and to the instructions given and refused regarding the effect of drunkenness.

Witnesses were produced in behalf…