§ 1165 Rules governing sanity trial.

When a court holds a trial to decide if someone is sane, the same basic rules from regular criminal trials still apply. The judge still handles legal questions, and the jury still decides the facts of the case. This means the jury listens to evidence about the person's mental state and decides what they believe happened.

The judge also gives the jury instructions before they start deciding, just like in a normal criminal trial. These instructions explain the law the jury needs to follow when making their decision about the person's sanity. So even though the topic is different (mental state instead of guilt or innocence), the trial follows the same structure people would expect from any criminal case.

This rule basically means a sanity trial is not a totally separate or special process. It uses the same roles, the same procedures, and the same balance between judge and jury that any other criminal trial would use.