People v. Garland

Arville Douglas Garland shot and killed his daughter, Sandra, a young man who was in bed with her and two other young men who were sleeping in the same apartment. He was convicted of manslaughter for the death of his daughter and of second-degree murder for the deaths of the three young men.1

*220The principal issue at trial was Garland’s sanity at the time of the killings.

The Court of Appeals reversed the convictions,* 2 on the authority of People v Martin, 386 Mich 407, 425; 192 NW2d 215 (1971), because psychiatrists associated with the Center for Forensic Psychiatry, one of whom had examined…