Court Opinion

ID: 9770386
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 16:03:26.91263+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:17.005030
License: Public Domain

ON SECOND motion for rehearing
MORRISON, Presiding Judge.
Our opinion on motion for rehearing is withdrawn, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:
The question has been raised concerning the failure of the state to disprove certain claimed exculpatory portions of the confession. This is a jury question, not a matter of law, and is to be determined under appropriate instructions from the court. In the case at bar, the court properly submitted the question to the jury in his charge and instructed them to acquit unless the State had disproved such exculpatory statement.
One jury heard appellant’s plea of insanity and rejected it. The cause was reversed on a procedural error, and on the second trial the plea of insanity was not interposed.
This court is powerless to hold as a matter of law that appellant was insane.
Remaining convinced that we properly disposed of this cause originally, appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.