State v. Max

OPINION

SCOTT, Judge.

Indicted for murder in the first degree, the appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and received a sentence of twenty years in the state penitentiary as a Range I, standard offender. On appeal she has presented six issues, one of which challenges the sufficiency of the convicting evidence. Specifically, she contends that the evidence of insanity at the time of the commission of the offense preponderates against the verdict and in her favor.

On the night of June 23, 1984, the appellant and her husband, James A. Max, went to the Little Hatehie Cafe, a beer…