PEOPLE v. KIDD

Docket No. Crim. 6821.

56 Cal.2d 759 (1961)

366 P.2d 49

16 Cal. Rptr. 793

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ROBERT LEE KIDD, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 2, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl B. Shapiro, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Arlo E. Smith, Albert W. Harris, Jr., and John S. McInerny, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


WHITE, J.

In an indictment returned by the grand jury of the City and County of San Francisco in 1960, defendant was accused of the murder of one Alfred Clarke on or about December 13, 1954. Prior to the entry of a plea, counsel for defendant (then the public defender) moved the court for a determination of defendant's present sanity pursuant to the provisions of section 1368 of the Penal Code. Thereupon the court appointed...

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