Garner v. State

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

A jury found appellant Joseph Garner guilty of murder and the trial court sentenced him to serve sixty-five years in prison, with three years suspended to probation.

Garner raises three issues in this direct appeal:

I. Whether the defense of insanity should have prevailed;

II. Whether the trial court erred in permitting the jury to consider evidence of Garner’s state of mind after he had received treatment and medication; and

III. Whether the sixty-five year prison sentence is unreasonable.

Facts

Joseph Garner was living in his car behind a fast food restaurant. After a long…