Freeman v. State

Deen, Judge.

1. The defendant’s insanity defense under a general plea of not guilty was supported by testimony of a psychiatrist who had interviewed him on two occasions and based his opinion primarily on what the defendant told him. We have examined the record on the propositions that the evidence demanded a verdict either of insanity at the time of commission of the offense or of the mental disease of delusional insanity. The strongest evidence for the defendant is his own, to the effect that he had seen his wife in the automobile with another man; that he went to ask her who it was; she…