State v. Arnandez

The defendant was convicted on an indictment for cattle stealing, and was duly sentenced. His hope for a reversal rests, in reality, on one bill of exception.

That bill discloses that the court, the state objecting to the evidence, refused to permit the defendant to show by his witnesses that he was an epileptic and readily amenable to suggestions and to undue influences. The question was not asked to show that-the defendant was insane, for his sanity was, through his counsel, expressly conceded, but was asked for the sole purpose of affording the jury ground to recommend to the court a…