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PEOPLE v. WESTBROOK

Docket Nos. Crim. 7926-7928.

62 Cal.2d 197 (1964)

397 P.2d 545

41 Cal. Rptr. 809

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. SIDNEY LINCOLN WESTBROOK, Defendant and Appellant. (Three Cases.)

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 28, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cy H. Lemaire, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, and Marvin Katz for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk and Thomas C. Lynch, Attorneys General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Rose-Marie Gruenwald, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

PETERS, J.

Defendant has appealed from three separate judgments.1 The three appeals have been consolidated.

There is no doubt that defendant committed the acts with which he was charged. That is not disputed. The basic question presented on all three appeals is whether or not the trial courts involved properly handled the issue of the present sanity of the defendant. We are of the opinion that they did not, and for that reason...

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