Newton v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for life.

Appellant shot and killed J. P. Arnold. Insanity was the sole defense. Many witnesses, who had known appellant practically all of his life, detailed conversations had with him, described his demeanor and expressed the opinion that he was insane. Several physicians based their opinion that appellant was insane upon hypothetical questions propounded to them. Medical experts, as well as nonexperts, having been called by the state as witnesses, expressed the opinion appellant was sane at the time he…