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PEOPLE v. ADAMS

26 N.Y.2d 129 (1970)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Marion G. Adams, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided January 22, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene G. Lamb and Nathan P. Zablow for appellant.

William Cahn, District Attorney (Henry P. DeVine of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL and GIBSON concur.

JASEN, J.

This appeal involves several issues raised by an insanity defense to the charge of murder in the first degree.

On March 20, 1965, the defendant fed butterscotch pudding heavily laced with sleeping pills to her husband. When he had fallen asleep, she bludgeoned him to death with a hammer and stabbed him repeatedly with a kitchen knife. Following the...

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