Brown v. State

CARR, Judge.

Appellant was tried in the court below on an indictment charging murder in the first degree. Upon his conviction for murder in the second degree his punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a term of twenty years.

A special plea of insanity gave leave for a wide latitude in the introduction of evidence.

In our view of the disposition of this appeal it appears that no good purpose can be gained by a full, detailed recitation of the tendencies of the evidence. Suffice it to say here that a jury question was posed by the evidence in the determination of the…