PEOPLE v. ELIAS

Docket No. 13897.

263 Cal.App.2d 93 (1968)

69 Cal. Rptr. 197

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES KENNETH ELIAS, Defendant and Appellant.

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

June 13, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Rothman, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Edmond B. Mamer, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


KAUS, P.J.

Defendant was charged with the murder of his baby stepson Ronald. He pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. After a court trial he was found guilty of murder in the second degree. The court found that he had been sane at the time of the murder.

On appeal the sufficiency of the evidence to support the finding of guilt and the determination that defendant had been sane is conceded. Therefore, we omit any description of the crime...

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