Wells v. State

As a result of a prior adjudication of insanity defendant was presumed to remain in such condition until the state had shown that his sanity had returned. Horace v. R. O. Culver, 111 So.2d 670 (Fla.1959); Wells v. State, 98 So.2d 795 (Fla.1957); Corbin v. State, 129 Fla. 421, 176 So. 435 (1937). That presumption of continued insanity negated criminal intent, State ex rel. Boyd v. Green, 355 So.2d 789 (Fla.1978), an essential element of robbery. Bell v. State, 394 So.2d 979 (Fla.1981). Where the intent of the accused is an ingredient of the crime charged, its existence is a question of fact…