People v. Smith

On February 5, 1954, defendant Louis Maurice Smith, then 18 years of age, was committed to the Kalamazoo State Hospital following a series of somewhat minor acts of sexual aberrations such as window peeping, stealing articles of feminine apparel, and indecent exposure. On November 5, 1954, Marilyn Kraai, a student nurse, was found strangled to death in the basement of the Kalamazoo State Hospital. An autopsy revealed that she had also been the victim of rape. On that same date, defendant was arrested and charged with murder. On November 17, 1954, a preliminary hearing was held in municipal…