State v. Reed

Tlie opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

The appeal of the defendant rests on several bills of exception and on the overruling of a motion for a new trial.

Bill No. 1 was taken to the refusal of the judge to admit testimony offered to prove the insanity of the prisoner at the time of trial, in absence of any plea.

There is no pretense that insanity existed at the time when the of-fence, for which defendant was prosecuted, was committed. In such case, it would- have been a legal defense, and under Revised Statutes, Sec. 995, evidence thereof would have been admissible under the…