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STATE v. KOLISNITSCHENKO

No. 76-166-CR.

84 Wis.2d 492 (1978)

267 N.W.2d 321

STATE, Respondent, v. KOLISNITSCHENKO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 30, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief and oral argument by Myron P. Keyes of Kenosha.

For the respondent the cause was argued by Marguerite M. Moeller, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general.

SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, J.

At 1:40 a.m., November 11, 1974, Michael Kolisnitschenko broke into the home of a neighbor, Palma Griffiths, and killed her by stabbing her seventeen times. In the first part of his bifurcated trial, he was found guilty of murder. In the second part, the jury rejected Kolisnitschenko's defense that he was not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. The jury reached that conclusion despite the testimony of Dr. Crowley, a psychiatrist...

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