Cockrum v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction, by a jury, for the crime of First-Degree Murder. A plea of insanity was entered by' the defendant as well as one of not guilty. .

The appellant drove a stolen automobile to a service station and compelled the attendant, at gun-point, to fill the car with gasoline. While the attendant filled the car’s gasoline tank, appellant told him that he had spent time in prison and that he was going to kill three (3) people before the night was over.

Subsequent to this encounter, appellant went tO' the decedent’s home, secretly entered the house and confronted the…