State v. Basco

PONDER, Justice.

The defendant was tried for murder and convicted of manslaughter. He was sentenced to serve twelve years in the state penitentiary. He has appealed. We are presented on this appeal with fifteen bills of exceptions taken to the rulings of the trial judge.

Bill of exception No. 1 was taken to the overruling of defendant’s objection to arraignment and the fixing of his case for trial. The objection was levelled at the refusal of the trial judge to pass on the defendant’s sanity at the time of the commission of the alleged crime. The lower court is without authority to pass on this…