People v. Young

On February 20, 1952, Ida Bell Harris, former wife of defendant-appellant, Cecil Young, was killed in ber apartment by knife wounds, one of which severed the jugular vein. Defendant-appellant was charged with her murder.

After examination, a sanity commission was appointed. On hearing its report, a Calhoun county circuit judge found Young to be “so insane that he is incapable of understanding the nature and object of the proceedings against him,” and committed him to the Ionia State hospital for the criminally insane “until restored to his right mind.” See CL 1948, § 767.27 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev…