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  "name": "O'Neal v. State",
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        "text": "McCulloch, C. J.\nAppellant was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree in killing one Wilks, in a saloon in Newport, Arkansas.\nOn the trial of the case, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of the crime of murder in the second degree, and judgment was entered for that offense, from which judg-. ment an appeal has been prosecuted.\nThe killing was done by shooting deceased with a pistol in the presence of a number of bystanders, who testified concerning the circumstances.\nThe killing was unprovoked and wholly unjustifiable, and the only defense is that of insanity.\nTestimony was adduced tending to show that appellant, who was a young man, had been a habitual drunkard since he was about fourteen years old, and that his mind had become diseased to the extent that he was insane, and was not criminally responsible.\nThe court gave instructions, some of them on the subject of insanity, and no objections thereto were made by or on behalf, of appellant. Appellant, however, asked the court to give three instructions, all of which were refused, and the court\u2019s ruling in each instance is assigned as error.\nThe first two instructions on the subject of insanity were clearly embraced in the instructions given, and need not be set out, nor discussed.\nThe third instruction embraced a statement 'that \u2018 \u2018 settled insanity which becomes fixed and established as a diseased condition of the mind, produced by habitual intoxication, affects criminal responsibility in the same way as insanity produced by any other cause.\u201d\nAppellant was entitled to have that phase of the law stated to the jury. Otherwise they might have confused it with the question of responsibility for crime committed while voluntarily intoxicated. The court did, however, give an instruction which we think sufficiently covered that theory. The instruction given was really more favorable, in some respects, than the law justified, but it was, we think, sufficient to convey to the minds of the jury the idea expressed in appellant\u2019s instruction which was refused. It told the jury, in effect, that if appellant was insane as defined in the instructions, and that his reason was dethroned to the extent of making him incapable of knowing right from, wrong, he would be excused for committing an unlawful killing while under the influence of intoxicants.\nUpon the whole, we are convinced that the instructions, when read together, were sufficient to declare the law on the subject of insanity.\nWhether all of the instructions given by the court of its own motion were correct, we are not called upon to decide, as no objections were made thereto, and no exceptions saved.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "McCulloch, C. J."
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        "text": "ON REHEARING.\nMcCulloch, C. J.\nLearned counsel for appellant ask us, on petition for rehearing, to reverse the case on the ground of the insufficiency of the evidence, in that it shows conclusively that defendant was insane at the time of the killing.\nIn the former opinion, we did not discuss that question, as. we did not understand that it was \u00e1 debatable one, for it appeared quite clear that the evidence was sufficient to warrant the finding that the defendant was not insane at the time he committed the deed. A further consideration of the evidence convinces us that we reached the correct conclusion, and that there was abundant evidence to warrant the submission of the question to the jury.\nWe are further asked to modify the judgment by appointing a commission to examine into appellant\u2019s present mental condition, or remand the case with directions to the circuit court to do so.\nThe circuit court was not asked either to postpone the trial on account of the mental condition of appellant, or to suspend judgment. The statute provides for such remedy, but it was not invoked. Duncan v. State, 162 S. W. 573, 110 Ark. 523; Hodges v. State, 111 Ark. 22.\nThere is no statute which authorizes this court to permit the institution of such an inquiry here, and it would be an attempt to exercise, original jurisdiction for us to direct the inquiry either here or by remanding the case to the circuit court for that purpose. \u2022 ,\nMotion overruled.",
        "type": "rehearing",
        "author": "McCulloch, C. J."
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "J. W. Phillips, for appellant.",
      "Wm. L. Moose, Attorney General, and Jno. P. Streepey, Assistant, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "O\u2019Neal v. State.\nOpinion delivered January 19, 1914.\n1. Homicide \u2014 defense of insanity \u2014 intoxication.\u2014Where appellant killed deceased while under the influence of liquor, and the evidence showed appellant to he an habitual drunkard, he is entitled to have the jury instructed on the question of whether appellant\u2019s reason was dethroned to the extent; of making him incapable of knowing right from wrong, which would excuse him from the crime committed while under the influenec of intoxicants. (Page 44.)\n2. Homicide \u2014 evidence\u2014sufficiency.\u2014Evidence held sufficient to warrant submission of question to the jury. (Page 45.)\n3. Homicide \u2014 insanity\u2014commission to examine into \u2014 jurisdiction of supreme court. \u2014 Where counsel for appellant, who was indicted for first degree murder, did not ask the circuit court to postpone the trial on account of appellant\u2019s mental condition, or to suspend judgment on that account, there is no statute permitting the institution of an inquiry as to appellant\u2019s sanity, in the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court will not attempt to exercise original jurisdiction by directing an inquiry, or by remanding the case to the circuit court for that purpose. (Page 45.)\nAppeal from Jackson Circuit Court; B. E. Jeffery, Judge;\naffirmed.\nJ. W. Phillips, for appellant.\nThe court erred in refusing instructions 1, 2 and 3, requested by defendant. Instruction 3, to the effect that settled insanity which becomes fixed and established as a' diseased condition of the mind, produced by habitual intoxication, affects criminal responsibility in the same way as insanity produced by any other cause, is surely the law. For test of criminal responsibility on a plea of insanity, see 64 Ark. 534. See, also, Kirby\u2019s Digest, \u00a7 1550.\nIf an infant under twelve years of age is held incapable of committing a crime, Kirby\u2019s Digest, \u00a7 1553, ought not a man whose mental development was arrested by excessive drinking at eleven years of age also be held incapable?\nWm. L. Moose, Attorney General, and Jno. P. Streepey, Assistant, for appellee.\nThe issue of insanity was submitted to the jury under proper instructions to which there was no objection. A trial court is not required to repeat instructions. 100 Ark. 199."
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