Garner v. State

Citations

• 112 Miss. 317
• 73 So. 50

Syllabus

<p>1. Homicide. Insanity. Evidence. Criminal law. Capacity. Passion.</p> <p>In a trial for homicide evidence for defendant to prove his insanity should be excluded where, at most, it only tends to prove that defendant wa's probably excentric, passionate and excitable and where such evidence would not cause any reasonable man to doubt his sanity.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>Mere frenzy or ungovernable passion is not insanity within the meaning of the law, sufficient to excuse crime.</p>