Baird v. State

* Corpus Juris-Cyc References: Criminal Law 16CJ, p. 751, n. 99; p. 752, n. 2, 4; p. 870, n. 65 New; p. 872, n. 76; p. 903, n. 58; 17CJ, p. 244, n. 67; p. 301, n. 54; Evidence, 22CJ, p. 607, n. 28; p. 608 n. 30. This is an appeal from a conviction of murder; the appellant's defense in the court below being insanity.

The evidence as to the sanity of the appellant consisted principally of the testimony of nonexpert witnesses under whose observation the appellant had come. Several witnesses, who had ample opportunity for observing the conduct of the appellant, were permitted, over the appellant's…