State v. Narich

In this case the defendant, on his plea of not guilty, was regularly tried and convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree; the jury by its verdict leaving the punishment to be fixed by the court. When called upon by the court on December 10, 1930, to state any legal reason why judgment should not be by the court pronounced upon him in accordance with the verdict, his counsel interposed objection that, according to the provisions of section 12213 of the Revised Codes of 1921, he should not be sentenced by reason of the fact alleged that he was then insane. Thereupon the court set for…