PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

Docket No. 70, Calendar No. 48,156.

356 Mich. 619 (1959)

97 N.W.2d 739

PEOPLE v. JOHNSON.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Adams, Attorney General, Samuel J. Torina, Solicitor General, Noble O. Moore, Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

James B. Stanley and Milo O. Bennett, for defendant.


EDWARDS, J.

Defendant Herbert L. Johnson is charged with murder of his wife. Defendant's counsel has filed notice of a defense of temporary insanity.

He also filed a motion for an order requiring the prosecuting attorney to produce the transcript of defendant's confession taken August 12, 1958, shortly after the death of his wife. In support of his motion, defendant presented an affidavit from a psychiatrist which...

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