People v. Lindsey

information filed April 4,

By 1967, defendant was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder, in violation of Penal Code section 217. Defendant pleaded not guilty. After a trial by jury, defendant was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, a lesser but necessarily included offense.

A probation report was ordered and a psychiatrist was appointed to examine defendant pursuant to Evidence Code section 730. On July 6, at the time set for hearing the application for probation, defendant’s motion for new trial limited to the issue of sanity at the time of the…