Cash v. State

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted of murder and thereafter sentenced to life imprisonment, the jury having recommended mercy. The appeal is from this judgment, based upon alleged errors in overruling the motion for new trial, as amended, the allowance in evidence of certain testimony and certain exhibits, in failing to charge the jury as to insanity, and in allowing persons disqualified as jurors to serve. Held:

1. Upon the arrival of police officers at the scene of the shooting, the defendant made certain incriminatory statements which the police…