Pesch v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

These are appeals from convictions for murder with malice. The court assessed the punishment in each case at life. The date of the alleged offense was August 18, 1973. The trial was after the effective date of the new code.

Appellant contends that the court erred in its instruction on insanity and that error was committed in argument.

Appellant, after an argument with his father concerning his (appellant’s) drinking, killed his father and then his mother in their mobile home by stabbing them with knives. The next day he was arrested at the scene. The day following his…