Sinclair v. State

PEE CURIAM.

Appellant was charged by indictment in the circuit Court of Pike county of the murder of one William Eay ford Allen, and upon being put to trial there was entered on appellant’s behalf a suggestion or plea of insanity, at the time of the homicide, to which the state replied that under the express terms of chapter 75, Laws 1928', sections 1327, 1328, Code 1930', “the insanity of the defendant at the time of the commission of the crime shall not be a defense against indictments for murder and the courts shall so instruct the jury in trials for murder.

After the opening of the trial…