Griffin v. State

Bell, Presiding Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

The judge instructed the jury that where the issue of insanity is involved, the burden is on the defendant to show, by a preponderance of the evidence, that at the time of the alleged commission of the act charged against her she was insane. He next defined preponderance of evidence substantially in the language of the Code. In the first special ground of the motion for new trial the movant contended that after giving the “foregoing charge,” and in connection therewith, the court should have further instructed the jury to the effect…