Curtis v. State

In special ground 1, error is assigned because the court excluded from the consideration of the jury a properly certified copy of the proceedings committing the defendant to the California Insane Asylum and adjudging him to be insane. The court excluded this documentary evidence at the instance of the State, upon the ground that the offense was alleged to have occurred on March 17, 1943, and that therefore the judgment of commitment on July 14, 1943, and the proceedings upon which it was based would shed no light on the mental condition of the accused at the time of the alleged commission of…