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PEOPLE v. LAWHON

Docket No. 1724.

220 Cal.App.2d 311 (1963)

33 Cal. Rptr. 718

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BILLY RAY LAWHON, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

September 17, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard H. McBride, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Gilbert F. Nelson, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

GRIFFIN, P.J.

Defendant-appellant was charged with murdering his child, Cheryl Lawhon, in violation of Penal Code, section 187. He pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. Alienists were appointed and a hearing in reference to his present sanity was conducted. A trial was had on the not-guilty plea, resulting in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The same jury determined that defendant was sane at the time of the commission of the offense...

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