People v. Riley

37 Cal.2d 510 (1951)

235 P.2d 381

THE PEOPLE, Respondent,

v.

LEANDRESS RILEY, Appellant.

Docket No. Crim. 5185.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 29, 1951.

Jerome A. Duffy, under appointment by Supreme Court, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Clarence A. Linn, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

SPENCE, J.

In a proceeding initiated, pursuant to section 3701 of the Penal Code, to determine the sanity of defendant Leandress Riley, who was then incarcerated in San Quentin under a final judgment imposing the death penalty, a jury found him to be "presently sane." The trial…