111 Tex. Crim. 144 - Haley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The court nowhere in his charge applied the law of reasonable doubt to this defense, but, taken as a whole, it required proof of insanity to be by preponderance of the evidence. Under the particular facts of this case the court’s charge was error. This identical question was before the court in the case of Dent v. State, 46 Tex.Cr.R. 166 , 79 S.W. 525 . From this authority we quote: 'If deceased himself, by his aggression, and on account of his assault, dazed appellant, rendering him unconscious and incapable of understanding and knowing the right and wrong of his actions, this condition springs out of and inheres in the case; and appellant was entitled to a reasonable doubt on the subject. We are aware that the generally received doctrine is that, where defendant sets up an entirely independent defense, and attempts to prove extrinsic facts, not arising out of the res gestae, such as license to do an act, jeopardy, compulsion, negligence of attendants and insanity, the burden rests upon the defendant to establish such defenses. In this state the rule with reference to the defense of insanity as a general proposition is, that the burden is on the defendant to show this by a preponderance of the evidence; but in all these cases the condition of the mind of the party charged with the offense did not arise during the struggle, but was an independent fact. See Webb v. State, 5 Tex.App. 596 , [Id.] 9 Tex.App. 490 ; Leach [Leache] v. State, 22 Tex.App. 279 , 3 S.W. 539 , 58 Am.Rep”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hurd v. State