People v. Clark

Defendant was convicted by a jury in the recorder’s court for the city of Detroit of the first-degree murder of her oldest child. The defense was insanity.

On June 8, 1957, shortly after 7 a.m., a woman telephoned the Detroit police department stating she had killed her children. Arrest followed and warrant issued charging first-degree murder. Following examination she was bound over for trial. A sanity commission was requested and appointed by the court. On July 18, 1957, the commission filed its written report, the doctors disclosing they had examined the defendant on that date and were of…