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PEOPLE v. CLARK

Docket No. 67, Calendar No. 48,813.

363 Mich. 643 (1961)

110 N.W.2d 638

PEOPLE v. CLARK.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 21, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Adams, Attorney General, Samuel J. Torina, Solicitor General, Samuel H. Olsen, Prosecuting Attorney, Samuel Brezner and Angelo A. Pentolino, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for the people.

Capizzi, Valenti & Kwetcher (I.A. Capizzi, of counsel), for defendant.

KAVANAGH, J.

Defendant was convicted by a jury in the recorder's court for the city of Detroit of the first-degree murder* of her oldest child. The defense was insanity.

On June 8, 1957, shortly after 7 a.m., a woman telephoned the Detroit police department stating she had killed her children. Arrest followed and warrant issued charging first-degree murder. Following examination she was bound over for trial. A sanity commission...

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