Wilkinson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DICE, Judge.
The conviction is for robbery with firearms; the punishment, twenty-five years.
Insanity as a defense was interposed by appellant.
Witnesses were called by the state and the appellant, including two psychiatrists, who testified on the issue.
The jury, in their verdict, found appellant sane at the time of trial and that he was sane at the time of the alleged offense and guilty of the offense of robbery, as charged in the indictment.
Appellant urges as error that portion of the court’s charge on insanity which gave application to the “right and wrong” test of insanity, under the…
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- Xanthull v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1966
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