The defendant in this case sought to withdraw his application for writ of error and to drop his appeal. Because the defense was based upon a claim of insanity and because the defendant had been committed, voluntarily and otherwise, to mental treatment facilities for therapy, this court refused to permit the postconviction challenge to the judgment to be abandoned.
The sole defense claim was that...
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