KANNER, Judge (Ret.).
Defendant-appellant, James Robert Byrd, was by the jury found guilty on December 16, 1960, of manslaughter under an information charging him with the second degree murder of one Johnson on May 20, 1960, by stabbing him with a knife. Defendant filed a motion for new trial; but before disposition by the court of the motion, he was on August 4, 1961, adjudged insane as the result of psychiatric examinations conducted pursuant to his motion in connection...
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