People v. Geiger
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Hapa County and from an order denying a new trial. E. I). Ham, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Britt, C.
Defendant was charged with the crime of burglary perpetrated on October 9, 1895. When the case was called for trial he moved the court to stay all proceedings against him, and assigned as ground for such motion that he had been regularly committed as an insane person to an asylum for such persons, had not been legally discharged therefrom, and was then insane. The proof was that on November 9, 1892, he was duly committed by a judge of the superior court to the state asylum for the insane at Napa; he escaped therefrom on December 24, 1894, and never returned; no attempt was made to…
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