People v. Harris

By an information filed by the district attorney of Contra Costa County the defendant was charged with the crime of murder, to which he interposed a plea of not guilty and also a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. In three additional counts the defendant was charged with three prior convictions—one of forgery qnd two of burglary, to which he pleaded that he had been convicted as alleged. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, and also found defendant to be sane. From the judgment pronounced thereon the defendant prosecutes this appeal, as well as an appeal…