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PEOPLE v. ECHOLS

Docket No. 24037.

138 Cal.App.3d 838 (1982)

188 Cal. Rptr. 328

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RONALD JAY ECHOLS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

December 31, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Mark S. Rudy, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, David H. Fielding and Bushnell, Caplan, Fielding & Rudy for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, William D. Stein, Assistant Attorney General, W. Eric Collins and John B. Moy, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

ELKINGTON, J.

On his not guilty pleas, defendant Echols was found guilty of two counts of involuntary manslaughter charged as having been committed on March 14, 1974. But on his subsequent trial upon his pleas of not guilty by reason of insanity, he was found not guilty, according to Penal Code section 1026. He was thereupon committed, as provided by section 1026, to a "state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally...

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