# Brown v. State

> Supreme Court of Georgia · October 7, 1971 · 228 Ga. 215

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9586537

## Case

- **Full name:** Brown v. the State
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Georgia
- **Decided:** October 7, 1971
- **Citations:** 228 Ga. 215; 184 S.E.2d 655; 1971 Ga. LEXIS 524
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Mobley
- **Judges:** Nichols, Grice, Undercofler, Felton, Mobley
- **Cited by:** 30 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled in part by Burger v. State, 238 Ga. 171 (1977).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9586537

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that the trial court had refused to charge the jury on delusional insanity but disagreeing that such a charge was warranted by the evidence
- holding that the charge was authorized by the evidence

## Opinion text

Mobley, Presiding Justice,
concurring specially. I concur in the judgment as I agree with the ruling in Division 3 of the opinion that the court erred in refusing to give the request to instruct the jury that: "The act itself may be so utterly senseless and abnormal as to furnish satisfactory proof of a diseased mind.” The conduct of this woman was *221 so senseless and abnormal as would justify the conclusion that her mind was, at the time, diseased.

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