State v. Croney

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

- The appellant was charged, upon information of the prosecuting attorney, with the crime of murder *124in the first degree for the killing of one Jerry Lyons, on the 12th day of February, 1902. The killing was admitted, and as a defense the appellant claimed that, at the time of the killing, he was insane from the excessive and long-continued use of intoxicating liquors, and by inheritance from his father, who had been addicted to the excessive use of intoxicating liquors, and who had been insane before the birth of the defendant; also that the…