Wilhite v. State

On the 5th of December, 1922, the appellant was indicted in the Johnson Circuit Court for the crime of murder in the first degree. On the 11th of December, 1922, the appellant, through his counsel, Patterson & Bagon and Webb Covington, filed a petition in which he alleged that he was then insane; that before the commission of the crime charged against him he had been confined in the insane asylum, and had been released therefrom before his reason had been completely restored, and that at the time of the commission of the crime charged against him he was insane. The petition alleged that the…