Wilcox v. State

C. N. Wilcox was indicted for the murder of Charles Jenkins. He was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the State penitentiary, and has appealed to this Court.

The defense relied on in this Court is the insanity of the defendant at the time of the homicide, and it is insisted that the act was the result of an insane delusion upon the part of the defendant, rather than a general derangement of his entire mental faculties upon matters generally.

The deceased was an employe or hireling of the defendant, and had been, for some considerable time…