PEOPLE v. STEELE

Docket No. 9559.

237 Cal.App.2d 182 (1965)

46 Cal. Rptr. 704

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RALPH STEELE, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

September 23, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton Marks, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and David S. Sperber, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


KAUS, J.

Defendant was charged with murder and assault with intent to commit murder. The acts charged took place on April 15, 1959. Defendant was not brought to trial until August 21, 1963, appointed psychiatrists having found him to be insane during most of the intervening period. Defendant pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. A jury found him guilty of first degree murder and of the assault, as charged. It also found that he was sane at the time...

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