Defendant pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree on June 6, 1940. Prior to sentencing a doctor in the Court of General Sessions Clinic found "defendant is probably mentally ill * * * he is on the border of a psychosis." Defendant was then examined at Bellevue Hospital where two doctors reported that while defendant showed certain abnormalities, he was, nevertheless, "not insane enough not to be responsible for the act that he committed." He was sentenced to State prison...
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