People v. Kurtz

Thomas R. Hadaway, S.

Donald William Kurtz was indicted by the Grand Jury of Orange County on August 8,1958, charged with the crime of murder in the first degree of a 10-year-old boy, JTohn Dudko, by stabbing and cutting him with a knife in the stomach.

Following an examination by two qualified psychiatrists, from Rockland State Hospital, the defendant was committed to Matteawan State Hospital on November 13,' 1958, pursuant to an order of Hon. Edward M. O’Gorman, County Judge, on the grounds that said defendant was in such a state of idiocy or insanity that he was then incapable of…