PEOPLE v. BIRDOW

Docket No. 1788.

221 Cal.App.2d 585 (1963)

34 Cal. Rptr. 620

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. SIMON BIRDOW, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

October 28, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.R. Walker, Jr., and Walker, Sullivan, Hews, Brown & Yakutis, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and H. Warren Siegel, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


COUGHLIN, J.

[1] The defendant killed a woman by stabbing her 51 times with an ice pick; was charged with murder; at all stages of the proceeding was represented by the public defender; upon advice of his counsel, waived a preliminary hearing and, in the superior court, entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity; subsequently, was the subject of an examination by two court-appointed psychiatrists who found him to be legally sane...

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