PEOPLE v. WOLFF

Docket No. Crim. 7434.

61 Cal.2d 795 (1964)

394 P.2d 959

40 Cal. Rptr. 271

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RONALD DENNIS WOLFF, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 31, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James O. Warner for Defendant and Appellant.

Kenny, Morris & Ibanez and Richard A. Ibanez as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

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


SCHAUER, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment imposing a sentence of life imprisonment (with recommendation that he be placed in a hospital for the criminally insane) after he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to a charge of murder, the jury found that he was legally sane at the time of the commission of the offense, and the court determined the killing to be murder in the first degree.

Defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support...

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