Legal Opinion
People v. Oliver
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 26, 1956PublishedCited by 165 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFuld, J.
On April 3, 1945, defendant, then 14 years old, killed his two-year-old brother, and a week later he was indicted by the Grand Jury of Bronx County for murder in the first degree. He pleaded not guilty and shortly thereafter — following a report from Bellevue Hospital that he was “ in such a state of * * * insanity as to be incapable of understanding the charge against him or the proceedings or of making his defense ” (Code Grim. Pro., § 662-b; Penal Law, § 1120)—he was committed to Matteawan State Hospital, where he remained for more than nine years. At the end of that period, in October of…
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