STATE v. HEBARD

No. State 71.

50 Wis.2d 408 (1971)

184 N.W.2d 156

STATE, Respondent, v. HEBARD, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided March 5, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Alexander R. Grant and Cohen, Grant, Crooks, Parins & Liebmann, and oral argument by Vivi L. Dilweg, all of Green Bay.

For the respondent the cause was argued by Betty R. Brown, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Robert W. Warren, attorney general.


ROBERT W. HANSEN, J.

What is challenged here is the separation of a criminal trial into two phases, the first as to guilt, the second as to insanity, with evidence as to the mental condition of the defendant admitted only on the issue of insanity. Such sequential consideration of issues and evidence is claimed to be constitutionally infirm, as applied to the defendant here and on its face.

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