Grace v. State

Grice, Presiding Justice.

The appellant Hamp Grace was tried and convicted for the murder of Winnie Mae Watson in the Superior Court of Bibb County and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The appellant’s sole defense upon the trial was insanity at the time of the commission of the offense. He introduced into evidence an "Application for Hospitalization of a Mentally 111 Person” and a physician’s certificate dated November 27, 1967, certifying the appellant to be mentally ill with acute paranoid schizophrenia and in need of hospitalization at a psychiatric hospital; and a letter to the Judge of the…